You guys are still talking about temproal stuff, that was like 6 pages back but anyways i got some new ideas
You all have had this happen to you at least once, ships being abandoned (lack of resourses) anyways why do they disappear i mean they must still be there its not like they are in the ocean and rust got um, i think they should be allowed to be salvaged and drift around one move per turn but not leaveing the system-- (that is if there are still warp points if not then drift everywhere). Also i think if ships early on go out to far away from planets i think there should be X chance they would disappear forever due to lack of communication and primitive populsion system. Also have them be able to be found or randomly pop up when you devolpe more advanced detection technology
Now--Atmospheric Malufunctions---If a ship is orbiting a planet(uninhabited) that has high amounts of ion storms or other things there should be a chance for the ship to crash into the planet for various reasons.
For both ideas
You could have a new tech called salavage which would allow you recover ships in space and more advanced Version of the tech would allow you to recover ships that have crashed into planets
These ideas bring up an intresting idea: recovery of enemy ships (stealing tech) or recovering ally ships for a price
