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Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
If you check out maps of the Star Trek universe, the Ferengi do get a little big chunk of space and it gives the players the option of playing something other than war monger.

As far are Star Charts is conserned, which is considered cannon, the Ferengi Alliance is about the size of Talar space, Badlands, or many other smaller civs, consisting of a homeworld and about a dozen colonies. I would compare them to organized crime, lots of cash, well armed, but not a serious threat to national governments.

With that said, not sure they should be a Neural Race as Ferengi ships can be found throughout local space and neurals cannot leave their system. More appropriatly would be having a very high cost of colony modules so that there growth is much slower than the big powers.

FYI, Bajor seems to have as many colonies as the Ferengi! Does that make them a colonial power?

This raises and interesting point? Maybe races such as the Ferengi, Gorn, Tzenjethi Coalition, Talarians and others could Minor Powers; races that have the ability to colonies outside their home systems but have a very high cost for colonization modules to limit their growth?

Just thinking out loud...