An extremely silly question, buut...

[dmm]

Maybe TF also starts with a huge planet (or base or ringworld or sphereworld, depending on the galaxy size) which is actually an intergalactic colonizer and they need to fill it with organics and radioactives so they can traverse the intergalactic void.

Maybe TF could act as a bank too. Allow players to "gift" excess production which the TF would store (after taking a cut). They could give loans, with colonies as collateral. Hmmm, how could we set it up so players would deal with the TF? It wouldn't be any fun to play TF if everyone ignored you and all you got to do was an occasional scavenge. Maybe we should let them also build ships/units on contract?