Starfire.

Ok, here's the plan. Some of my favourite books are Starfire novels. The ones I have are Shiva Option andIn Death's Ground,Crusade, and Exodus. Many times I have seen people query if there is a Starfire mod and I've been interested. I have thought for a long time that I'd like to do it, only I made a mod once for a game (Domination mod for Hearts of Iron 2) and as much as I enjoyed the product the effort it took put me off ever doing it again. I don't know but that maybe it's been long enough since then that I feel like working on another mod, now I seem to have the spare time, at least a SEV mod won't involve all the ai work and graphics stuff my HoI mod involved.

So I can't promise anything, after all my AARs tend to sort of crash to a halt when I don't have the time. So I'll list the sort of things I can think of and welcome any suggestions. Maybe I'll miss something. I might even get Insurrection despite my dislike of its situation, if only for the tech stuff. the actual game rules, well I can't find them with a brief glance at Amazon and Ebay. I've seen some rules such as weapons and ships listed soemwhere, I probably have it bookmarked, only I can't find it offhand at the moment. I have had the Starfiredesign site bookmarked for awhile but it's a bit old and seemingly unchanged for years.

Right now, off the top of my head.

It's a pity warp point size doesn't work. For all its faults at least Exodus uses the problem of getting Juggernoughts through small WP. Then there was moving across interstellar space. I might have seen a mod listed somehwere that covered that sort of thing.

Oh if only there was a way to do closed warp points. In fact I could say the allure of Starfire is the closed warp points. Now that i've remembered them I might even say I might not bother if I can't figure out a way.

X-ray buoys. A one shot weapon that ignores shields and armour. Maybe the sattelite blows up, or maybe it just only has a recharge time of longer than a fight.

X-ray lasers for ships. Like Buoys only on ships. The Thebans managed it by containing the nuclear explosion, and with only a 3% chance of blowing up their own ship. Is there a way for a weapon to risk destroying its own ship?.

Clearly drones work pretty much as normal. Drones that blow up taking lots of units nearby with them might be good, if I knew how to do it.

PD fire that can't fire at the rear covered by the engines?

ships:
pretty much the same. Neostandard to cover larger sizes such as monitors, superdreadnoughts and all that. Ot then again maybe just rename stuff.
pinnaces.

weapons:
X-ray lasers for ships. Like buoys only on ships. The Thebans managed it by containing the nuclear explosion, and with only a 3% chance of blowing up their own ship. Is there a way for a weapon to risk destroying its own ship?.

Plasma broadsides. Powerful, but very short ranged.

I know the actual Starfire game has lots of other stuff that weren't in the books which I'd be willing to include if I knew what they were.