diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 1f2850e..e6bcc4f 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 [submodule "third_party/libpixel"]
 	path = third_party/libpixel
 	url = https://github.com/modeco80/libpixel.git
-[submodule "third_party/indicators"]
-	path = third_party/indicators
-	url = https://github.com/p-ranav/indicators
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ee66adc..ef3ca99 100755
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,8 +21,25 @@ project(EuropaTools
         DESCRIPTION "Tools for working with LEC Europa based games (Star Wars: Starfighter & Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter)"
         )
 
+include(FetchContent)
+
+# declare dependencies
+FetchContent_Declare(indicators
+        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/p-ranav/indicators.git
+        )
+
+FetchContent_Declare(argparse
+        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/p-ranav/argparse.git
+        )
+
+# Future (maybe when libpixel has provisioning for installs :v)
+#FetchContent_Declare(libpixel
+#        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/modeco80/libpixel.git
+#        )
+
+FetchContent_MakeAvailable(indicators argparse)
+
 add_subdirectory(third_party/libpixel)
-add_subdirectory(third_party/indicators)
 
 add_subdirectory(src/libeuropa)
 add_subdirectory(src/tools)
diff --git a/third_party/indicators b/third_party/indicators
deleted file mode 160000
index 6432875..0000000
--- a/third_party/indicators
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 6432875ef4c866d25e324c19a787b5bb90b0ab12