[geoschmo]

Ok, I think I see where you are going with this. You are more interested in stepping into the middle of a game and making changes than you are actualy setting things up frmo the beginning.

These things are all actually possible without an editor, with a little creative setup beforhand and some "cooperation" from the players. But yes it would be more efficent with an editor.

I was actuially having a discussion just the other day with another modder about the posibility of setting up a game with a galaxy master that is actually a "Super Empire" that has access to tech and intel projects that the players don't have. You could use these intel attacks as non-random "events". Destroying ships, civil wars, etc. You could even do intel with negative values that would confer "blessings" upon specific races, planets, etc.

Geoschmo