[MOD] Sector Access Control — Ugh, get out of my sectors
So I've been on this playthrough for a while now. Got myself a nice isolated pocket in the southeast, claimed every sector in it, built the whole thing up from scratch. My little empire.
And then I realised I had absolutely no way to stop random factions from just... coming in whenever they felt like it because I'm friends with everyone. Teladi freighters, miners, allied patrols, allied capital ships, Split military doing laps.
Checked the workshop, couldn't find anything that did what I wanted, so I did what I could.
This adds a tab to the map sidebar. Pick a sector, pick a faction, toggle them restricted. Two modes:
Expel — their ships get rerouted back toward their own space. Polite but firm. (they may then again try to come back in, but this will just reroute them back again once they come in.
Hostile — they enter, they're a valid target. They go red, No rep penalty, no consequences, just consequences for them. I treat this as a border invasion, any ship that comes in goes temporarily red so there is no permanent rep hit.
Rules are per-sector and per-faction so you can be surgical about it if you want. Also works if you don't own any sectors — it'll show all known sectors instead, which could be fun for a pirate run, move your fleet in a sector and set it as restricted and to expel and see the ships just almost run out of fear.
Fair warning: there's zero plot protection. I built this for my specific problem and didn't even think about missions until after. If you've got active plot missions touching a restricted sector, maybe pause enforcement there or even globally, I can't promise anything good happens otherwise.
It also won't discriminate between a freighter and a mission-critical NPC. A restricted faction is a restricted faction.
Needs SirNukes Mod Support APIs and kuertee UI Extensions.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3681335710
Happy to hear if anything breaks but I can't promise I will fix anything.
Posted Mar 8, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC