Well, I ahve finished my first clumbsy efforts at makeing a mod. I appologize if any of the changes are similer to other's mods, I dont know much about the mods out there. Just added 2 tech trees, several componenets, adjusted some of the ship stats, made space borne yards more useful that ground based yards, and made the AI use the new technologies.
Note that the AI is no harder in this, and that due to some changes in the settings file and quadrant file the map is more complex, but does not work quite right on spiral, cluster, or grid modes

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Anyhow, this is my first attempt and I would appreciate and comments, so please, be gentle

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