[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
I'd still like to see 'surrendered' empires retain an underground identity and reconstitute themselves (rebel!) if the conquering empire is badly weakened by external events. Like systems having individual attitudes to other empires, this would take some complex tracking, though.

This is a great idea, and actually I don't know how complex of tracking it would require. The game already maintains the player spot for the dead empires, and if you view any of the former empire population it list's them as conquered. It seems to me that most of the coding required then must already be in place to do something like this. In fact this may have been an original intention of Malfador's. Have you ever notice the message in the speech file about granting "independance" to a colony? Maybe something like that is what this was supposed to be about?

Geoschmo