Except for the whole "pick a side thing", unless of course they had some kind of moral incentive to protect the innocent :)

Classic!

Even though it is a style break, I still celebrate this mod!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6oUz1v17Uo

So he randomly spawns on the map ? Because it is my 4th game and i haven't found him yet. Other empires did but not me.

You've got to find him in the wild.

how exactly can i get him as a hero ?

i cant wait to see this

Never mind, I figured it out. In retrospect I ought to be using homer simpson going Doh! as hero.

Cool mod, it's the first one I've tried in a game but I can't activate it from the main menu. Clicking on "mods" just takes me to a list of about 400 assets to export, none of which seem to involve picard. The problem might be my laptop is so old, amazing the game runs at all to be honest...

I don't know how to mod any of that in.

The questions is... do we get a quests to help them get home?

Look at the Stellaris workshop for a model of the enterprise.

Yep, appears to be random. Thanks for the confirmation that it was working.

Correction to my previous comment.. I saw Picard. :)
Grrrr.. he was leading the fleet I was fighting :).
kk, I would have preferred to have hired him myself, but I guess that is just luck if he appears in the pool that one can buy from?

Did you activate it in the mod menu from the main menu? I think the way ES2's modding works is you need to start a new game. If you did this, it should be random, I believe. Unless if I did something wrong, which I don't know.

If you like, I can upload an alternate debug version of this where you can start out with Picard, but you also start with your standard ES2 hero as well. Might be a bit OP having two heroes in the beginning.

I installed the addon and did a complete playthough, but never saw Picard as a hero.
Was it just bad luck or does one need to do something more then just install the addon or something else?

Awesome :) would be really cool to see this expanded on!

Needs the facepalm for when he's injured too.

Looks great

Commander of The Unyielding Crusade of Rejuvenation.

I'd love it if I could reconfigure the hero ship to look like the Enterprise.

That's one thing I had trouble with.

You failed to explain what happened to the Enterprise! You have made nerdy enemies this day.

Seeker and Pacifist, you got it man :)

A single tear for this O.Q

Nice work! :)