Something has always bothered me about the Xenon

[oddgit]

I started playing X ad X3 reunion, and when I read about the Xenon I thought they were pretty cool, self replicating machines that spread like a virus. I always thought it would be neat that if rater than the Xenon blowing up a station or capitol class ship they captured/converted the target to a xenon ship or station, or now with the scrap/recycle feature in 5.0 they were able to quickly build new resources. I picture a ship the size of a raptor or asgard gobbling up wrecks and popping out fresh xenon ships. That was initially what they were built to do.

[Manawydn]

I think it's a great idea that adds flavor and context to the Xenon in an easy way. Give them scrapping modules/blueprints and a Xenon-tug. They are terraformers, designed to make use of their environments so it makes sense.

[Rei Ayanami]

That's actually a cool idea, giving Xenons tug ships and being able to immediately recycle targets they destroy and it makes sense for them to do it.

It could be either recycling stations with tug ships flying around, or perhaps a carrier-like mobile recycling ship, with tug ship groups collecting stuff for it and then mining ships being able to transport produced ore and silicon from the big ship to shipyards/wharfs.

[Raptor34]

A new Xenon M0 would be nice.
Even if all they could do at the start is produce their basic miners/transports.
Will help them get back on their feet at least.

[TKz]

Instead of transforming wrecks into ressources, maybe they could use their tugs to collects wrecks then repair and Xenify the wrecks at their shipyards ?
Imagine a Xenified Raptor or Rattlesnake
With improved stats, graviton turrets ...