Related to the question on fan fiction. Got interested in the background information on the universe.. Do maybe the universe creators have some knowledge of the following?:

1. What are the political orders of the races? In particular, what is the political model of the human state in the game? What is happening on Earth? The descriptions of Wanderers and Celestials give some insight about their political models, but not too much.
2. How many is the crew on the ships? Are the ships highly automated and self-sustaining that they require like about only a dozen crew or are they full of people?
3. Am I right that drones are controlled by AI or remote, and fighters are controlled by living human pilots?
4. What can you tell about the hyperspace technology? What kind of technology is it? How long does a travel last? Does the duration of travel depend on distance?
5. Is there an events history timeline of the universe? What is the context of the events in BS:FC and BS:H?
6. What about the planets? Do races colonize planets? How many planets does the human race possess? What about other races?
7. What non-military vessels are there? Are there any research, transport, mining, passenger and other kinds of vessels?
8. Are ship weapons operated by crew members or does AI takes the most of the control on itself?
9. Where is the rest of the human fleet?
10. Where do the auxiliary ships come from?

Maybe some questions don't have answers, but maybe some can be answered.. and these could be used as background info for fan fiction, if there'd come some.

Also maybe somebody else could think of more questions..

Does anyone play on difficulty other than Hard? I always play on hard and find it quite okay, I get killed from time to time, but it does not happen often and it's a roguelike, so no problem with this. But I get the impression that the other two difficulties are simply too easy to even try.

What is your experience with this?

Just saw that I am ranked #1 in Hard for IOS! Score 11,868. Has anyone else beat that score?

While the ships you can get or recruit are all really cool I would love if some alien ships could join up as well. It would be neat having a Wanderer Maurauder (light carrier name suggestion) or a Celestial ion frigate fighting in the fleet. Of course they would have to be won over somehow...

Anyway it is something I hope to see in the future.

I been playing this game a lot over the last few weeks and something that I think that could be improved on is the fleet managment.

Two changes I think would be good are:

Ship class slots
Currently you can have 3 ships of any type in your fleet.. I think an improvement to this set up would be to change it to 3 capital ships and 2-3 lighter ships( like the one weapon /fighter slot ships) this would make your fleet more interesting to arrange and give more build flexibility.
An addition to this would be special ships for example a ship that has a strong shield but only one direction or specialises in point defence to add more tactically interesting decisions when arranging the fleet.

Recruitable allies
Similar to the current system of hiring but you would have one permanent auxiliary slot in you fleet that could be filled by one of the encounter allies, they would become part of the fleet management (you can give them orders/targets etc) but you cannot change their weapons etc. This would make each game more unique as you fleet make would vary depending on which allies you encounter.

I'm playing on IOS and currently level 85 and it appears that I am not unlocking any more ships for my 2nd and 3rd ships. I would love to have more of the ships available in the start to use for my 2nd and 3rd ships - i.e. I'd love to go through the game with just Hurricane assault ships of just destroyers.

Also, it would be fun to have more weapons (like Vulcans) available to buy in the game. I would love to have a ship with just one weapon type, like just Vulcans), but you can not find enough of them. Could the feature be added to have more weapons available?