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Starbase Defenses Extended

Stellaris version supported: v2.0.*
I recommend using Starbase Defenses Extended 2 instead because it has better compatibility.

Reintroduces the medium and large military stations which can be build at starbases just like defense platforms.

The technologies required to unlock them are back. They are accessible early on in the game and will also increase the amount of defense platforms that starbases can support slightly; enough to build one additional unlocked station at all starbases.

Includes new section templates for the fortress based on those of the defense platform. The defense station and fortress also each have their own unique station reactors.

Both the defense station and fortress have rare hull point increasing technologies like the defense platform does in the Vanilla game. Three new society technologies that reduce the build costs of the military stations have been added.

The supremacy tradition Armed Deterrence, available to pacifist countries, will also boost the defense station and fortress. New ruler traits can reduce the building costs of the defense station and fortress.

The new stations will perform only slightly better than the equivalent in defense platforms to balance them out and minimize impact on gameplay.

It will work with existing saves. However, the Vanilla game has generated a corrupt version of the fortress design which will crash your game if you try to modify it through the ship designer. This is caused by Paradox removing the large military station partially from the game. Specifically: they have removed the section templates for the fortress but still require a default design to be generated at the start of the game. The solution is to create a new design and delete the old one. Generating a new automatic design after enabling the mod might also work.

Extra Ship Components 2.0 is fully supported.

Incompatible

• New Ship Classes

• When the mod is disabled through the loader the medium and large military stations will remain as they are in the Vanilla game as well, just hidden. All section templates from the fortresses will become invalid however.
  
• Should be compatible with mosts mods out there. Unless they also reintroduce a military station.
  
• It will throw some errors stating that the military stations already exist. It will also say that the platform reactor components already exist. This is the only way to make it compatible with mods that overwrite the Vanilla ship sizes as well as save a lot of work. Some name lists don't contain entries for the new stations.
  
• Sometimes, when the text says Defense Platform, it actually means military station in general. Some modifiers will actually be applied to all military stations rather than only Defense Platforms even when the description says otherwise.
  
• For more defense I recommend Military Station Fortifier 2.
  
• Military Ships Extended contains name lists for this mod.