Modern Empire Tab

◆ Modern Empire Tab ◆

The Empire screen from Vanilla Factions Expanded – Empire, rebuilt as a floating, resizable, dark-flat window in the style of the Modern / Nice tab suite. The Great Hierarchy becomes a pannable, zoomable org-chart of the Empire's nobility; Permits, Vassalage, and Honors are all reskinned to match. Presentation only — every action runs VFE–Empire's own logic underneath.

✦ The Great Hierarchy

• Top-down org / lineage tree — the Emperor at the top, each rank a row of portrait node-cards wired to the rank above, instead of a flat side-scroll.
• Pan & zoom — drag to move, scroll to zoom (40–200%) toward the cursor; zoom out for a clean portrait-only overview. The view is remembered, and first opens centered on the Emperor.
• Your nobles glow gold — colony colonists who hold an Imperial title get a soft gold glow on their card edge, standing out from Empire NPCs.
• Click to act — click your colonist to jump the camera to them; click an Empire noble to invite them for a visit (honor cost and all). Jump-to-rank buttons and a search box round it out.

✦ Permits, Vassalage & Honors

• Permits — the royal permit tree redrawn flat, with prerequisite lines and colour-coded nodes (unlocked / available / locked), a detail card, and the points + return-all footer.
• Vassalage — current vassals with delivery bars and tithe settings, potential vassals in a grid with range checks, and a built-in mini-map: click a settlement to recentre it, click the map to jump there.
• Honors — drag honors onto a noble to assign, drag them back to remove; pending honors tint gold.
• Flat scrollbars throughout, matching the suite.

✦ Quality of Life

• Always-show option — keep the Empire tab available even before you have a titled colonist, so you can browse the hierarchy at any time (toggleable).
• Floating, resizable, borderless window with a clean flat close button.
• Layout measured at runtime — UI-scale and tiny-text friendly.
• Safe to add or remove mid-save; stores no data of its own.

✦ Requirements

• Vanilla Factions Expanded – Empire — required. This mod re-skins its screens; it does nothing on its own.
• Vanilla Expanded Framework and Harmony — as required by VFE–Empire.

✦ Compatibility

• No Harmony patches — the entire mod is XML class-swaps on VFE–Empire's own defs, so it slots in cleanly.
• Conflicts only with another mod that replaces the same Empire screens.

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Built for RimWorld 1.6. The Empire, the modern way.

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🛠️ Mod Disclaimer & Quality Assurance

A Note on Development: Parts of the code for this mod were generated using Claude AI. However, this is not a low-effort "AI slop" upload.

🔍 My Quality Commitment:

• Fully Tested: Every feature has been tested in-game to ensure it functions as intended and integrates smoothly.
• Active Support: If you encounter any bugs or compatibility issues, please report them in the comments or a discussion thread.
• No Abandonware: I will actively patch and refine this mod to keep it up to standard.

Thank you for downloading, and happy gaming!

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