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Occasionally someone asks for heroes -- people who can swing the course of a battle. It occurred to me that we can already do that, sort of, without any modding whatsoever. How? Just use fleets. Name the fleet after your hero -- Kirk, Picard, Janeway, JarJar, Crusher, etc. Then pretend that the fleet experience is due to the presence of your hero, who continually gains experience until he/she becomes elite. In fact, this actually makes sense with the way the game works. (By which I mean, that you can totally change the make-up of the ships in a fleet yet retain the fleet's experience.) If you want to reassign your hero, just put him/her on board one of the ships in the fleet, put all the other ships into a new fleet, and send the hero fleet to his/her next command.