What about spacefaring races?

[Shadow99]

I was thinking about how it could be fun to have 'raider/pirate' races that would be antagonists (as opposed to nuetral races which are their just to be conquered/make peace with)...

So I like the idea... Maybe a mothership component that allows updating?

[rdouglass]

I think the idea is good also except that I don't believe SE4 is designed to allow anything but facilities (planet based) to generate research or intel points - no components (ship based). However, you would think that if they can develop components that do resource extraction (robominers), they should be able to develop components that do research and / or intel. That and the habitat mentioned previously could do it...

Check out some other threads - this has been discussed before at length.