[Spyder]

Another idea that comes from Civilization (The Boardgame) along with the Civil War idea is the Barbarian Hordes.

In Civilization this is a 5th level calamity. Its basic premise is that the hordes are only looting & pillaging....and they loot & pillage until their resources are exhausted.

In SEIV, this would be an Antarean-like race that appeared at the edge of the galaxy in the MEE Empire's area, with a MASSIVE fleet of Modern ships and began to completely wipe anyone and anything in their path. Their path would be randomly determined. After they wiped a system, they would randomly choose a wormhole, or, just make a wormhole to where they want to go if there were no wormholes. They would continue until wiped out.

I would start them with a total fleet that was the SUM of ALL THE SHIPS IN THE GALAXY (maybe 50%). The edge that the player would have is that he can make more ships and the Barbarians cannot. He can also research whereas the Barbarians are stuck with what they came with.

[ 30 November 2001: Message edited by: Spyder ]