Glad you're enjoying the mod so much!

I don't yet have any solid plans for revealing more about the Unique merchant, but it's certainly something I'll consider! There's a lot more to be told about the Centens in general, and it'd also be nice to delve a bit deeper into individual members of their species, so that merchant would be a good place to start.

And yeah, the Centens are definitely planned to become playable! I already have a few unique ideas for how to handle their outpost, and I plan on giving them a custom starting mission along with access to some pretty cool racially exclusive items. I haven't quite decided which race to work on after the Aegi, but the two primary candidates are the Centens and the Akkimari (a new race being introduced as NPCs in the upcoming update).

Yeah I saw the Akkimari too, and they are awesome ! I would deffinetly love to see them as a playable race. Such uniques races in just one mod, can you even imagine someone being able to do that ? :D

Yeah I'd love to be able to play as them in the future! It'd be cool!

Just found Vhos Avha'las and it looks really cool! The atmosphere is really nice and I'd love to see a centensian outpost just like that!

If you make the Centens playable, what would happen with the centens ennemies ? How would you explain that they're hostile?

Originally posted by FlyrO:

If you make the Centens playable, what would happen with the centens ennemies ? How would you explain that they're hostile?

Glad you're enjoying Vhos Avha'las: it's been one of the most interesting locations to work on, so it's great to see people appreciating it! You can definitely expect more locations like it in the future, and the current plan for the eventual Centensian outpost is indeed to have it be located in the same cloudy biome.

As for the drones, they're an automated defence system that's been abandoned for millennia - the drones are still fully functional, but they have no knowledge of the disappearance of the Centens and are stuck in their old programming. They were built to defend the site from anyone, including rival or unauthorized Centens, and so the drones will still perceive you as a threat.

Thanks for the reply and btw is there a specific planet where the centensian ruins spawn more?
For all I know I mainly found them on lush or forest planets.

Centensian "Anomalies" are weird, I found like 2 at one star then 3 at another one but I didnt find any after that.

Originally posted by FlyrO:

Thanks for the reply and btw is there a specific planet where the centensian ruins spawn more?
For all I know I mainly found them on lush or forest planets.

The Centensian ruins (the small random encounters) spawn on all planets other than ocean-type planets (since the landmasses there complicate spawning quite a bit). All planets should have an equal spawn chance, but higher-level planets will obviously yield better rewards (tier 6 planets even have a chance to spawn a quest item for a Unique weapon!). And yeah, the Centensian anomalies can spawn a bit weirdly at times: they have a relatively low spawn chance, but I too have seen clusters of them followed by long periods of no spawns at all.

How will the Centensians be played ? Because it'll be pretty odd if you walk in the Starfarer's refuge being like "I'm one of your gods but don't mind me" Will we get some kind of way to hide ourselfes ?

I know nobody has spotted the merchant yet but it seems still odd...

Originally posted by soleau73:

How will the Centensians be played ? Because it'll be pretty odd if you walk in the Starfarer's refuge being like "I'm one of your gods but don't mind me" Will we get some kind of way to hide ourselfes ?

You'll likely get some armour to hide yourself for roleplaying reasons, but unfortunately Starbound doesn't allow for a whole lot of customization of interaction between species. Avikan NPCs will get a lot of new dialogue lines expressing their astonishment and reverence, but there's not a whole lot more that can be done without meddling with the NPC scripts. I'm going to look into ways of making custom-scripted Avikan NPCs for some more appropriate reactions, but I can't be sure yet if those will work at all.

As almost all Centens disappeared from our universe, they'll get a rather unique outpost too, as there won't be many (or possibly even any) NPCs present there. I have a few plans on how to handle their outpost, but they aren't final yet.

Same goes for the theleans, how will we be able to enter the refuge without "having a bad time"?

Originally posted by soleau73:

Same goes for the theleans, how will we be able to enter the refuge without "having a bad time"?

Current plan is for the player Thelean to be a Narvakhan: an exile/traitor to the Thelean Dominion, who'll be looked down upon but who'll be tolerated in much the same way as Droden, Trink and Glitch are. Again, if I can create custom behaviours I may actually consider making Thelean players loyalist to the Dominion (meaning you'll play very differently around Avikan NPCs), but that's going to require a lot of testing. In the Starfarer's Refuge I might have to make it so no-one will attack you to prevent quests from being impossible to obtain and complete, but none of it is final yet.

Cause, if we are a Centens, it's fine, they love you, they are just surprised.
But if you a Thel...
Of course they wont turn hostile because it will remove a lot of the mod content,of course...