Space Debris

[Goodwood Empire]

Have you ever held a choke point against all odds time and time again? Wouldn't it be cool if debris started to gather in a systems where large/multiple conflicts have taken place? You can already find systems with large debris fields. I hope to see something like this added one day. Maybe as they start to accumulate they can add extra mineral/alloy deposits in that system. Just thought this was a cool idea. Thoughts? Or is there a mod already for that?

 

[Bezborg]

I would love for the galaxy to change over time, due to our interventions and experiences.


Your post is a good example of how systems can change over time.
Another guy had a suggestion somewhere, saying how some stars could go nova and make hyperlanes disappear, or new hyperlanes appearing due to a supernova calming down (or anything tbh, I can imagine any number of reasons how new hyperlanes could appear, from sensor tech and exploration events)...

All in all I'd very much like a flowing galaxy, not a static one.

 

[OldEnt]

Have you ever held a choke point against all odds time and time again? Wouldn't it be cool if debris started to gather in a systems where large/multiple conflicts have taken place? You can already find systems with large debris fields. I hope to see something like this added one day. Maybe as they start to accumulate they can add extra mineral/alloy deposits in that system. Just thought this was a cool idea. Thoughts? Or is there a mod already for that?

Steam Workshop::Battle Debris - Starship Graveyards

steamcommunity.com

 

[DukeLeto42]

I really see three ways to represent battle history in a system. They aren't mutually exclusive, but they're the options that come to mind for me:

1. After multiple major battles in one system in a war or through other criteria, events could fire to mark a system as "historic" to your empire. You could then build a station over this "historic battle site" to generate some unity, representing how commemorating this battle is important to your people. This is probably the most abstracted option, since it only leaves a trace later, but it would help us remember "oh yeah that's where this important engagement occurred."
2. Basically OP's suggestion, large battles can leave permanent resources to be extracted from the system. It's not bad, but once the deposit gets its station I feel like we'll all forget it ever existed.
3. This would be a system rework for debris. Rather than have debris be a single project in the situation log that eventually expires, why not make it a distinct deposit, so:
   • A certain fraction of the alloy cost of lost ships would be converted into the local debris field, and additional battles in the system would add to the debris field's size.
   • Either constructors or science ships could be tasked to process it, slowly reducing the field's size until it is gone (there could be some slight decay as well to ensure that minor fields from dead science ships / constructors / that one corvette you lost to an outpost don't clog the galaxy).
   • Constructors would directly turn debris field value into alloys, while science ships would derive engineering research and occasionally generate insights if there is tech you don't have (since you can still learn a lot from the aftermath of battle, even if you have the basic tech).
   • Extremely large debris fields could start having system-wide effects, as the debris slows movement and otherwise interferes with normal activity.