[dogscoff]

Perhaps comets appearing and disappearing should be an "omen", espcially in systems controlled by religious races. Comets could be coded to appear after great battles and the fall of empires, before catastrophic events (ie natural star collapse) and so on. Might add an interesting flavour to the game...

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"