Yep, sure enough, after the past week of beating my head on the keyboard I found the problems just after posting. Alot of little stuff. No fix for the starbase thing? Not too big a deal for me but still.. Actually I got the idea months ago from Fenn Shysa's Vod'an mod idea. I read his post and thought it was a great idea. Drastically cool yet simple. Of course eventually I decided just to add a new faction as that I don't like the corruption system. So basically all the xml is just altered underworld and empire units. What I'm really having trouble with is getting the AI to use the Mandalorians. I'm experimenting but any general help would be appreciated. For instance, is there an file like gameobjectfiles.xml for the AI folder's xml files? Will new LUA scripts in the SCRIPTS folder be read? BTW, if anyone wants these skins I'm happy to share.