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What would be really cool is some kind of singleplayer "Sim Planet" that lets you pick a colonised planet inside your se4 empire and play with it. It would read in data from the SE4 game about what facilities/ units are on the planet, whether or not it's just taken damage from combat or if it's plagued and any other pertinent information. Then you can re-organise things and make little improvements, or just snoop around and see what life is like down there- all while you're waiting for your next PBW turn.

To stop this becoming just a tedious layer of micromangement, what you do to your planet in this little sub-game wouldn't have any effect on the main se4 game whatsoever- it would be just for fun and entirely optional. However it would make your empire seem that little bit more alive.