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One thing we see in major sci fi space ship battles are that defeated ships would explode, but also break apart. In Avorion, all the game does is stripping the ship of the turrets and have some physical damage, but nothing drastic as the ship breaking into 2 or 3 pieces. There was a minigame, "Attack Cruiser" from the now closed Clone Wars Adventures where your ship would die by exploding and fall into multiple chunks. Such a scene would be great in Avorion.

I wish if it was possible to only have custom faction packs being spawned on the map, (so max can be about 17 based on the amount on the steam workshop), instead of trying to find them in the vastness of space mixed with so many other vanilla factions. Aggressiveness/chance to expand sectors as suggested by TenguKnight for these factions would be nice as it would add more immersion in an active galaxy. Instead of many small factions in the map, there would be large empires fighting for control, and each of them are from popular culture. Imagine Star Wars Imperial ships attacking Imperium of Man or even one of the groups from the Halo series, if there are such faction packs somewhere. I do hope such an option will be available in the future.