Minx's Starborn Guardian Ships Redone  - Set 1:
Starry Night Starborn FX Versions
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Some Guardians you might love flying Here is a Mesh and Texture replacement for the Starborn Guardian ships with 4 options of glow to taste. Both the exterior and interior have had lots of tweaks performed to raise it up more toward a Trident Luxury vibe. It now feels much more warm and alive, luxurious and energetic. 

These all are quite sparkly and glowy, but not flashing. They should be Photosensitivity safe. 

All this was done by hand in NifSkope, Photoshop, and Paint.net, with fresh extracts from B.A.E.

Check out my other reworks: Natural Natalie has similar refinements using Old Earth natural luxurious materials, Atlantis Annie has an aquatic / New Atlantis vibe, or my Party Patricia Edition with wild cranked up to 11, or the Siren Sarah Edition with a "Siren of the Stars" vibe.

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Main File Options: 

• Whiteish-Green Glow: or is it a greenish-white glow, who knows. This one displays a bit warm white on the exterior but a greenish tint inside for some reason. It has a bit of a texture to it in some lighting and some distances, I rather like it but some might hate it. 
  

• Purple Glow: my favorite, this color is used a lot in Neon, and reflects nice on the interior. 
  

• White Waterfall Glow: this uses the effect from the original interior which is a white illumination with a falling black rain/waterfall effect. I'm aware there's like 5 people that hate it or have resolution on minimum or something, I like it and it displays great on my setup. 
  

• Red Glow: particularly fun, although very bright, it has a nice vibe to it. As an unintended bonus, it makes the whole thing look like a Darth Vader ship. 
  

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Sub Options:

• It turns out the NPC's lean on the invisible missing railings, so in the Optional section are full kits with the railings reinstalled. The railings were slightly adjusted from 4 pieces of that garbage vanilla steel metal to a 2-part Chrome and glow.
• Included also in Optional section is a complete kit of colors I had made for an upcoming mod, these will colorize the Gloss Piano Black panels in my Main Files kits.
• Blackout Versions: special request, these have the exterior rings changed from glow to the Starry FX, all glow removed from the interior and those places changed to the Starry FX. All interiors for these are the same.  
  

Changes performed on all options:

Exterior:

• All exterior main body panels have the Black Starborn / "Starry Night" FX applied, and all grunge, dirt, and scars removed. The outer door retains the same original Starry Night FX.
  

• Exterior cockpit glass has actually been duplicated to create 2 layers, the inner glass is just a 99% scale down from the outer. The inner glass is swapped to black glass from mirror chrome, and the outer layer has the unique trailing dot FX from the pilot seat. In game it displays as a single layer.
  

• Exterior glass trim has been scaled up slightly to overcome the original vanilla clipping, and has been swapped from that weird stone to a glow effect per the options.
  

• Once-hidden exterior bits are now illuminated (see in pics): the small wing rectangles that looked like they were supposed to have lights originally (c'mon Bethesda that spot was perfect for lights), longitudinal strips down the wings, rear thruster-looking ports on the backs of the wings, and the docker plate. 
  

• The big rings have been changed to the choice glow color. I did try the black Starry Night FX on them but it...just did not look right at all. They look much better glowing. Now it rather reminds one of the temple circle glow moments, rings of a planet, or an ecplise. 
  

• The X-Y-Z coordinates of some things slightly adjusted to overcome some bad vanilla clipping (though there are still a couple spots I couldn't fix completely).
  

Interior:

• The interior is where the really good stuff happened. All the cold stone is gone, the grunge and scarred texture is gone. The railings are also gone, unsure why but they really bothered me, visually. The bronze metal that really didn't fit in, also gone. (Note: Collision for the railings is still there, I'm not good enough in Blender to redo collision and the main tools for that from Skyrim/Fallout haven't been updated in a decade+ lol. Gonna have to fix later.)
  

• Where a lot of the stone was has been replaced with a luxuriously sleek Gloss Piano Black. The use of the Hammered Nickel metal has been expanded, Chome has been added delicately in a few choice places. 
  

• The usage of the Starry Night FX has been greatly expanded on the interior. Glow and lighting has been tastefully increased throughout.
  

• The weird out-of-place derpy metal in the cockpit glass joint trim has been replaced with Chrome. 
  

• The pilot seat, a seperate and unique Furniture piece, has had a full makeover. It now features Chrome, the Gloss Piano Black, your choice of glow, and the plastic-rubber whatever of the armrests and foot plate replaced with the same soft leather of the seat cushion. Yeah, it kinda looks like the dentist chair from hell haha, but still looks approx. 372.8% better. 
  

• The doors and cargo/locker hatches have been drastically redone to bring them up to the design language ("vibe") of the new rework. I did purposely retain the cool Artifact language heiroglyph decals on the docking hatch, Captain's Locker, and Cargo Hold hatch.
  

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Install: use your favorite manager, the files should be set up to play nice. Or manually get the .zip of choice, open it, and marry the Data folder inside with your existing Documents/My Games/Starfield/Data folder. Also, like other mods, you'll need the StarfieldCustom.ini file, you can get one here on Nexus if you don't have one. 

Options: get one of the kits with or without railings, install that, then get the Colors Kit and open that, pick a color, and drag the contents over to overwrite 4 files. A set is included to return to the Gloss Piano Black. 

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Uninstall: use your choice of manager or manually delete:
\Data\meshes\furniture\pilotseatstarborn\
\Data\meshes\ships\interior\starbornshipint.nif
\Data\meshes\ships\interior\starbornshipint_containerhatch01.nif
\Data\meshes\ships\starborn 
\Data\Textures\common\starborn
\Data\Textures\ships\starborn

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Mix and Match: You can indeed mix and match assorted interiors and exteriors from my kits. Good news is most of the kits are like 1 Mb so you can try things out to your heart's content. If something breaks tragically, you can start it over with a fresh mod install ez. 

You'd first install the mod with the interior, because the interior is like 5 parts. Then get the zip for the exterior you want, open that zip up and navigate to data/meshes/ships/starborn and copy the starbornshipext.nif file from the zip over to your
/My Games/Starfield/Data/meshes/ships/starborn/ and paste it to overwrite 1 file. So far this should generally work. When there's custom paint files used in /Textures/ though, it can also affect the exterior paint color and things could end up with wild and unintended color combos haha.

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Problems: there are still a couple spots with troubled vanilla clipping and texture flickering, it is pretty clear that the devs never actually finished working on this ship before release. (there's even a whole suite of unused Starborn furniture the ship was supposed to be decorated with but never was). Some of the lighting does show a pattern when applied at this scale, but I think it adds to the vibe. 

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Suggested to get:  Strongly suggest you get and use the .bat file here on Nexus to make the Starborn Guardian ship much less lame in power/usability, and also get the Decorate Starborn mod here on Nexus or use the console command spawn method to add a home decorator panel to the ship to add some crafting stations, seating, and beds. 

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Future Plans: Working on some fun color versions in a slightly different style, almost done with that set. Plans to make a version populated with the unused Starborn furniture assets, I have that started with some things placed, but am lacking the ability to add collision at the moment. I have a few more themed vibe plans too in the works. 

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Thanks for stopping by! Swing through the Discussions tab if you have feedback, I might be able to do some special requests if you have ideas but the tools and assets are still limited, as is time haha. <3