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FTL Redefined - Subspace Drives Expansion

This mod serves as an official add-on to FTL Redefined, expanding it to feature a properly-balanced implementation of Subwarp Drive and its associated progression.

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The FTL Redefined: Subspace Drives Expansion takes the unique "early jump drive" progression from the amazing Subwarp Drive mod, and seamlessly integrates it with the Hyperdrive travel time balancing & progression of FTL Redefined.

While these new Subspace Drives are objectively worse for regular travel along Hyperlines, you will find that they are still very versatile - and as you progress through the different tiers, they become much more capable and competitive.

Both the standard Hyperdrive progression of FTL Redefined and the new Subspace Drive progression seen here culminate in the Vanilla Jump Drive, which offers the best of both worlds.

Which path you choose to get there is up to you, and exploring a mix of both FTL methods is heavily encouraged!

• A new optional progression path, reminiscent of pre-2.0 Warp Drives
  
• Improved balancing from the original Subwarp Drive mod
  
• Some minor tweaks to tech weights/requirements in relation to FTL Redefined
  
• Improved naming, tech descriptions, flavour text & functional dynamic tooltips for Travel Times

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This mod also implements a major change not present in the original Subwarp Drive mod:

Instead of locking the entire Subspace Drive progression path exclusively behind the "Eager Explorers" Civic (which let's face it, is only really good for roleplay), it is now possible for any empire to research & progress through the different tiers of Subspace Drives once they unlock the "Experimental Subspace Navigation" Technology.

Alternatively, the "Hyperspace Specialty" Civic (or its MegaCorp/Gestalt equivalent) are also a way to fast-track both FTL progression paths, as it not only comes with Hyperdrive II as a guaranteed research option, but also bypasses the tech requirement for getting the Subspace Drive technology.

Note:
Even with the above, the chance for the research option to show up in the first place is intentionally kept low, so as to not give everyone a way of bypassing Inhibitors immediately. Still, there are ways to increase the chance, which are in the list below:

• "Maniacal", "Spark of Genius" or "Expertise: Field Manipulation" Council Leader Traits
  
• Adopting the "Discovery" Tradition Path
  
• Unlocking the "Technological Ascendancy" Ascension Perk
  
• Unlocking the "Grasp The Void" Ascension Perk

Compatible with Stellaris v3.14.*.
The load order should be sorted internally, but if you want to play it safe:

• Subwarp Drives
  
• FTL Redefined
  
• FTL Redefined - Subspace Drives Expansion

Both FTL Redefined & Subwarp Drives are core dependencies. You will run into errors if you don't have them.

Specific to this add-on, try to avoid mods that change any of the following:

• Subspace Drive/Hyperdrive/Psi/Jump Drive Technology or Component Template Definitions
  
• Localization for the names & descriptions of ^those^
  
• Localization for the "Hyperspace Specialty" civic effects list
  
• Localization for the "Initiate Jump" Fleet Order button

For more general compatibility, please refer to FTL Redefined's Workshop page.

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If you have any feedback for the mod, please feel free to leave a comment! Bug reports, unless related to this expansion specifically, should be left in the FTL Redefined Bug Report thread.

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• YoshiWoof22 (me) - Creating this addon, writing all new flavour text, ideas guy.
  
• Jaysus273 - Creating FTL Redefined, creating a compatibility system specifically for this, and helping me a lot with learning Stellaris Modding.
  
• Navar - Creating the original "Subwarp Drive" mod.