[mac5732]

I like the idea that TD & Spyer mentioned. Similiar to Birth of Federation where the Borg shows up. Now I'm not a programer but I have seen a lot of the vets/modders here create new races etc, how hard would it be to create a new race, make it super xenophobic, weapons, ships, etc, program it to only enter game on a random factor each game, sometimes after MEE arrives, maybe before MEE, and others situations, it arrives from more then 1 entry point, fleets glaze and capture/colonize planets, begin new empire, all the current tech available to them, they start at specific levels in each or certain tech areas, Maybe give them several starting fleets of a specific number or a random number of turns as reinforcements, to get started, etc. Couldn't you just take a current race and tweak or modify its traits, change weapon names and increase their strenghts etc in order to do this? I'm not sure about how you would implement the random factor.
Is this possible or at least something capable with the current system to implement something like this. If anyone interested, I or maybe one of you could start new thread on this so we don't clog this one up with discussion. Sorry for being off topic.

just some ideas mac