Ok, to do this right is going to require a lot of out of game communication. I'm thinking either a whole lot of emails (yeech) or some kind of forum. Since neither the Shrapnel forum or the PBW game forum is very condusive to organization, I'm setting up a metagame site with a forum. Fyron has graciously offered me the use of a subdomain for this purpose.
Check out
The SE4 Play By Web Starfury Game site at
http://starfury.spaceempires.net
There's not much there now, just a shell. I think it will let you go ahead and sign up for the forum if you want. Or I may have to do some more configuring on that first. Not sure yet. Please use the same login that you use on PBW. This site and forum will be open to interested non-players as well. Using this forum we should be able to keep all our communication organized so nothing gets lost. At least that's the plan.
Geoschmo