What about spacefaring races?
I'm just full of strange ideas ain't I?
Something I was rather impressed with was the sheer flexibility of the game.. So it got me thinking: Add research components and some whacked way to combat ship maintenance with a racial trait..
Then you could actually command a completely spacefaring race, no planets whatsoever. They would start out with a Mothership (A skeleton Base Ship with construction, cargo, minimal armament, slightly mobile, quantum reactor?) The race would need to raid planets and asteroids for resources to expand and maintain its armada. I.E. resource extractors.
Shivans from Freespace, Aliens from ID4, etc. There are many examples of races who don't actually colonize planets, their entire races live in space ships. The play style may be more difficult than the norm, but it would be great fun!!
What do you think?
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