Well, the beauty about a space game is that you actually invent the universe and it's content based on what you think might be a realistic probability / interpretation of what it is, or a fantasized universe with absolute wackiness. I admit that it could get redundant to search for life / minerals / energy sources / etc etc, but what if the goal is to find a host planet for the human race, as hearth has now been defuct. Your spaceship would hold all the earth animals, plants and human races. You'd roam the universe and try to find the ideal planet with ideal conditions, or find the technology to build a genesis type bomb as seen on Star Trek (Wrath of Khan?). So you're big space cruiser would of course have a batallion of ships surrounding it, and of course you would often get in trouble, depending on your luck and avenues. There is immense potential for making the space conquest games :P I was a big fan of Battlestar Galactica and Space 1999 at the time, oh and the old Star Trek. I like the novel ideas, but the newer "Next Generation" and others weren't my cup of tea. I always tought invading other solar systems wasn't nessesarely an intellectual affair.