[Hugh Manatee]

I also have an Idea, to stay true to SMAC, I think we should make shields a highly advanced tech that comes along in late game. I think we should just have different kinds of armors and such that have different special abilities(like regenerating and partial regenerating shielding for "resonance" armor, ecm, that sort of thing)until then.

What do you think of having mindworms be troops, "spacelurks"(sealurks in space) be like battle cruisers , Ilse of the Deep be Carriers, and Locusts of Chiron be like drones(uncontrollable but deadly). Also we could make spore launches like satellites or weapons platforms and Fungal towers the same.