Before I embark on educating myself in the art of modding, I was wondering if someone could tell me if a particular feature I would hope to have is even possible.

Could the game be made to support various locations (planets and the larger stations, not the fixed location battleships and smaller border stations) being claimable by other factions?

Basically, what I would like to do is create a multiplayer mod that allows the players to join a faction and participate in a galactic war, with missions that allow that faction to slowly spread across the known galaxy, perhaps recreating the WW2 alignments, with Kusari and Rheinland allied against Liberty and Bretonia.

It would be so cool to participate in the Battle of Cambridge as a fleet of Bretonian battleships and various cruisers and gunboats fight a fleet of Rheinland ships that are on the move after having taken complete control of Omega-5. Meanwhile, the Liberty Fleet has managed to hold the Kusaris at Colorado while moving a small strike force up through Tau-29 to destroy the Battleship Nagumo, thusly allowing an almost unhindered move into the heart of Kusari space.

I'm not looking to add new ships or anything like that. I am just looking to "rescript" the game, I guess. But it would all be moot if the Rheinlanders couldn't push the locals out of Freeport 1 and begin using it as a forward command post...

So there it is, and there is my question. Hopefully someone would know the answer...

Chris

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