Chewy, I already read the civil war thread and it looks good and I like the idea, this would fall into the 2nd catagory. The ideas I listed in my post were only some examples, with all the good ideas on the forum I couldn't list them all, that should be done with everyones input.
just some ideas mac
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just some ideas Mac
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Category 2: "non-player characters". Randomly generated battle fleets, pirate boarding ships, swarms of "space locusts" (organic fighters). Appear out of the blue, attack the nearest planet/ship and disappear after a couple of turns.