Hello guys,
How about a difficult chain quest to search and get some "legendary ships"? This is just a very fresh idea but the base is:
during missions, or stops in some station or bar there is a chance that the player can get some rumors (example: the player hear some rumors from drunk pirate) about some legendary old ship from the era before the gates go shutdown.
Those ship was once very powerful and big (battleship class) feared by everyone, but now there are only storytelling for the childs. Forgotten weapons, lost in space many years ago.
The difference with the other mission is that these searching are not tracked, player must discover key element visiting and talking with some key characters (CEO of Tri-Tachyon, Galatia researchers etc etc) or some survey at precise planets.
I suggest this grade of difficulty because of the rewards the player can obtain:
example:
one of those legendary forgotten ship can be the Nautilus (a high-tech phase battleship, resembling a huge submarine, a precursor of the Tri-Tachyon technology and AI), the particularity of this ship is that has no need an officer because has an integrated AI Alpha Core (so is a free officer, with crew requirements lesser than others Battleships),
or the infamous pirate terror ship the Jolly Roger (a low tech cannoner, with a lot of ballistic weapons points) despite the dimension the ship is the most maneuverable of the battleships with Safety Overrides built-in with no penalty to the weapon range (maybe this is a bit exaggerated)
and other ships...(maybe one for factions).
What do you think guys?