my, chronon thats a great idea there! plus you can easily extract images from the game...
Pirates, well, remember for one the Native life - using rollo's monsters as a base we can make them pretty nasty... they'll have null-space type weapons (SKIP ALL)
Now there are some factions there that could be piratized.
We even have naming files! (the city names in the game). Speech shouldnt be a problem, either way its all too similar in the game
GOod idea. For what i can, i will help you.