Starsector is the best game right now for spaceship genre right now (gameplay wise) no one would disagree. Homeworld is only better cuz it has a awesome story, and StarCitizen, E&D are good cuz its pretty.
once Alex makes a buck and rep off starsector, then start a dev team. Imagine star sector 2, with online world. With base building akin to kerbal(2d version = Space Agency), and multiplayer, run in a server format like freelancer where you can say, play on a server with ALL THE MODS, or vanilla.
(like what they did with torchlight :>)