Starborn Archives: More Than A Collectible Card Game v1. 2

Starborn Archives adds up to 200 collectible cards throughout the Settled Systems, but this is not just a card collection.

Find cards as loot, buy individual cards from vendors, purchase booster packs and sealed boxes, or take them from defeated enemies. Every card depicts a creature, character, item, location or supernatural power from this universe or another.

Once you become Starborn, most cards can be used to trigger an effect. Cards function similarly to consumable Aid items or magical scrolls: summon creatures, allies and alternate-universe characters, create ammunition, resources, food and equipment, teleport across the battlefield, open two-way portals to major cities, unlock nearby doors, containers and terminals, gain temporary abilities, and more.

Used cards are normally consumed, so you must decide whether to preserve your collection, trade valuable duplicates or spend them when their power is needed.

What gameplay loop to expect: Find or buy cards and build your collection. Craft binders and boxes to store them in your ship or at your outpost. Use the cards to solve problems, travel or fight. Increase your Unity Resonance to strengthen card effects. Carry the cards in your inventory through the Unity. Search the next universe for cards you are still missing.

Some cards are Common tools. Others are powerful Rare or Legendary cards. Unique cards can normally appear only once per universe, giving you a reason to continue exploring the multiverse.

Carrying cards may also attract rival Starborn collectors. Defeat them to claim the cards they were carrying.

They look like nothing special. Just collectible art cards. Each one depicts a fragment of reality: a creature, a place, an item… Some things and some people you know, and some you don’t.

For most people, they’re uninteresting. Just collectibles. Lore on cardboard. But for the Starborn? They’re everything.

Starborn Archives cards are more than relics. They are keys, to summon and to vanish, to transmute and to unlock, to twist fate. They are the true currency of the Unity, the reason Starborn risk betrayal, madness, and death. Because once awakened, you see them for what they really are: power.

As your collection grows, so does your arsenal. The only question is: will you master the Archives… or will they master you?

Features

• Up to 200 cards to collect: loot them, buy singles and packs from vendors, or grab booster packs and boxes from kiosks. PraxisUI or any inventory UI that makes the list more compact is highly recommended to go through your card collection faster.
• Utility effects: the cards can be used for diverse effect: obtain items, summon allies from parallel universes including Starborn Constellation, teleport across the battlefield, open town portals, or tap into hidden lore like the mysterious Starborn Vault.
• Hand-crafted visuals: made by a lifelong TCG player, each card was meticulously designed for immersive detail.
• Five categories and five rarities: Animals, Characters, Items, Locations, and Powers, from Common trinkets to one-per-universe Unique cards that define your journey.
• Persistent collection: your Unique cards follow you through the Unity, so you can keep hunting for more!
• Card sorting system: craft dedicated boxes and binders to store your cards in your outpost/ship.
• Rival Starborn: carrying cards can trigger ambushes from other card chasers. Killing Starborn yields cards.
• Raids: Fed up^with the ambushers? Take the fight to their homes with the new Raid cards.
• Unity Resonance: grow your resonance to amplify the strength of every card you use.
• Knowledge Cards: if there's an encyclopedia for the Starborn Archives lore, they are it. 17 Knowledge cards and counting.
• Cross-mod synergy: patchless integration with several other mods. If those mods are installed, you'll find cards that grant Quantum Rigs and Codices for DarkStar, Computer Cores for, Watchtower*, treats and specialized gear for Xeno Master (both free and achievement-friendly versions), summons from Cryomancers and a Megatherium Sword card.
• Rule Control: diverse gameplay option settings to tailor your experience with the mod to your unique taste.

And for an even more unique experience, install this patch : https://creations.bethesda.net/en/starfield/details/ced13520-9bd0-4ff8-acfa-d5eed3955efa/Starborn_Archives___Eternal_Patch

Some Card Examples:

• Ashta (A003, Epic): summons an Ashta that will fight your enemies.
• The Mantis (C001, Epic): Summons the Mantis from another universe that will follow you and fight the scum for you.
• Sam Coe (C011, Epic): summons Universe Omega Sam, who will fight alongside your team with his Starborn powers.
• Ammo Crate (I016, Rare): gives you a random amount of diverse types of ammo.
• Chunks (I026, Common): gives you a random Chunks food item.
• Akila City(L011, Legendary): Opens a Portal which teleports you to Akila and back when you go through it.
• Expert Unlocker (P003, Epic): unlocks any door, chest or terminal of Expert level or lower in a 6 meters radius.
• Wormhop (P007, Rare): spell that instantly teleports you wherever you aim.
• Boost Mastery (P012, Rare): 30-second infinite boostpack fuel.
• Unity (L007, Unique): takes you to the Unity, no questions asked.

Brainstorming for v1.3:

• More Raid cards (will be included in Eternal Patch instead of the main mod for master size reasons)
• More Power cards
• Some Starborn-related devices that allow you to use the cards differently
• More skins for your card boxes and binders
• ? :)

Future versions possible goals:

• More cards.
• Starborn Vector: pick a class that will influence how the cards work for you.

Join the community (QR code in the picture gallery) and:

• Read the wiki with info on about anything about this mod.
• Share your ideas for the future growth of Starborn Archives!

Big Thanks A lot of people helped me in small and big ways in making this possible. By teaching me, testing, making assets, and sometimes providing the most precious of help: proving me wrong.

Bp42s, BriarShayde, Caracal5707, Daf, DaAngryMechanic, Daze0, DownfallNemesis, FenHarellan, FlightControl, FlippingEggs, GhostRider231, GoArray, Harra, Imperial Sympathiser, Invoker Gray, KaoruSatou, LarannKiar, Miss_o, OldBard, Paulie B, ProfX, S1nderion, Scrivener, Sweetpea704, Syberghost, Tank_Girl444, Vaernus, WhortleBerryJam, WykkydGaming, Yak, ZeeOgre... to name a few.