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Sounds like a good idea. The P&N mod might be a good idea. SJ could play a pirate race and a nomad race, and the mod has some small civilian ships in it and other colorful and interesting additions. OTOH, it might reduce the widespread appeal - probably worth another poll question.

As for the units for players - I'm not sure why they'd be entirely necessary - SJ could just track character positions on paper, which would probably be easier and more flexible.

How is character movement going to be carried out? If we want to travel from place to place, will we need to somehow get an in-game ship to move from planet A to planet B? If so, we'll probably want a lot of little transports... which would be neat, and probably best with a mod to add tiny cheap ones, although again it might be more sane to just have SJ track it on paper.

It would be more interesting if at least some of the opposition was potentially human. There could be a few adversary players, and/or SJ, and then just one committee empire.

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