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Components
Game Play, Lua api, Drones, AI, Role play
Proposal
Make new npcs and make them able to be hired by the player as his escorts though dangerous territory using the Lua API and it should be expensive and risky, the could be traders
Mockups / Examples
Mercenary factions military unities for hire
Benefits.
More Fun and role play possibility
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