[Atrocities]

Machine worlds should provide a bonus to production thus making them highly sought after. Machine worlds are used in mods but should be considered for use in SE V.

Artifical Warp Points, another mod specific item, should also be considered for use in SE V. Perhaps as a comerce tool, or as an acient technology. When encountered a race must either pay a toll, or posess the technology to operate the "gate."

You should be able to mine black holes, nebulas, organic infestations, or commet systems for resources.

I said this before and want to bring it up agian. I would love to see a system filled fully or partially with an acient mine filed that modern mine sweepers cannot clear until they have a very high technology level. Also make the mines self replicating.

Brings me to my next suggestion. Self replicating mines. I think they speak for themselves. Very advanced mine tech. If not all cleared at once, will reproduce themselves.

I would also like to have something like a Stargate system on planets so that you can move resources or such things as troops, fighters, or weapon platforms from one planet to another within the gate system. Have these gates as "rare" finds until later in the game when the player gains the ability to "build and place them" on planets themselves.

Also have a huge orbital stargate system that can move one ship instantly to another gate in another system each turn.

The player would have to build these over the planets they want, and put a limit of one per system on them.