Whee! It's like Star Control times Starfury take out the realtime aspect but leave in the modding! Say, are you using hexes, or just squares, or something completely different (like perhaps a vector based turn-based system like Stars! and Begin2 had - you remember Begin2, that Star Trek based shareware combat simulator? Man I loved that game... it kept me occupied when I was 15 or so before my mom let me buy MOO2... she thought the Antaran on the cover looked too scary and therefore the game must be violent

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I bet one of the first mods for this game will involve playing the role of a pilot from the Black Spathi Squadron... I really think so
