[JaydedOne]

Apologies. I did a more customized search after posting and found most of the answers I was looking for. Clearly my first round of searches was too general as adding a few key words taken straight out of my questions pulled up what I was looking for right away. Doh.

In any case, let's just go ahead and chalk this initial post up to a newbie who's enthusiastic, if not yet as thorough in his research as he should be. I'll be taking a look at the Black Empire mod's guts tomorrow to get a better idea of how some of the things I'm interested in are being implemented in, particuarly since Cook's world served as an inspiration for my own way back in high school.

Cheers!