Playing with lots of mods recently, one thing that really stood out to me how the game was still feeling fresh after doing like 3 playthroughs in a row. The ability to allign with a faction you like immediately and get some of their ships really improves the late game for me. Don't get me wrong I like the fast start options and the random one, but you always spawn in Corvus, and you can only get a commission with the Hegemony, which gets boring after a while. Grinding to 10 rep or whatever is required for a commission is the worst since you have to pray to get a bounty or a mission specifically for that faction. Getting rep AFTER the commission is trivial. So yeah having a Pirate or Luddic Path start would be cool as a hardmode kind of thing. Sorry if this was already planned, I just don't remember ever seeing something about this topic.