Heh, as you may have guessed, I've had some great fun with the BINI INI decompressing utility, and before that some plain old hex editing, with the demo. Here's some highlights :

1) Introducing some unlawfuls into Manhattan space provided some light relief and much needed exercise for the ever-vigilant but bored Police Patrol units in the region. No doubt they were quite surprised when their daily routine was rudely interrupted by half a dozen Outcast Daggers, double that in Liberty Rogue Bloodhounds and a literal swarm of Xenos fighters right out of Colorado in a combined assault strike on Liberty's heart. Two particular events stick in my mind from this time.

The first was during a frantic dogfight as I weaved through Tranton's bulk to avoid about three missiles. I heard some sudden comm-chatter from a Rhino that, if I remember correctly, went like "Um, guys? Police? Help?! I really could use a hand here, if you don't mind!!"

The second came as I was down to thirty percent hull and no more bots or shield batteries. I attempted to flee, abandoning my allies in an attempt to save my own skin. Twisting frantically, I had a near-miss with Manhattan's upper atmosphere and continued on in a level curve around the planet. Half a minute later came a stream of erratic gibbering and wailing as one by one all my pursuers roasted in the atmosphere.

2) Having had my fill of excessive unlawfulness in the nearby locale, I left that alone and tried my hand at some more interesting modifications. Attempts to introduce Cruisers and Dreadnoughts as random encounters failed miserably (DT crash, reboot required) so I had a close look at the one example available of a titanic death-dealer - the Battleship Missouri. Unfortunately, the Missouri is A) a base and stationery.

Or so I thought.

A bit of hackery later and a duplicate of the Missouri appeared in orbit over Manhattan - with one minor detail changed. It was mobile. MOBILE! It cruised the local 'airspace', looking for trouble - and, of course, with my previous 'mod' still in effect, the 'Meandering Missouri' didn't take long to find something to erase from the universe.

Now, that was fun! Again, two particular events come to mind.

The first was when the Meandering Missouri, in an attempt to come within range of a dogfight between local police forces an a Xenos assault team, rammed, in turn, two Storage containers and that rather big station nearby. Doing this caused a chain reaction as a number of Transports were unloading water at the time. One smeared itself against the station, another was the unfortunate victim of a hit'n'run by the Meandering Missouri and the third went into Cruise mode in order to escape - straight into the planet's surface! Only one survived. I think it made it to a trade lane, I am unsure as I was slightly distracted at the time.

The second was less spectacular but nonetheless amusing. A Rogue Mule, with escorts, came barrelling into the system unaware of the conflict taking place in the area. Coming out of cruise, it saw the situation and decided to flee. Ordering the escorts to watch its back, it turned forty five degrees and dropped back into cruise - taking it closer to the Meandering Missouri which prompty hosed the unfortunate Mule with hot neutron death. As the pilot screamed his last denial and the ship spun out of control, it slammed straight into the Meandering Missouri's upper decks, leaving a trail of burning debris across the hull.

Great fun!

For those 'in the know', the region's population/combat density was trippled for all factions. So you can imagine how hellish it was!

I can't wait to do a repeat but with capital ships in addition to fighter wings.