This game is great but...
-Starting with a medium hulled ship with a survey module but not already having the appropriate technologies.
-Starting with Imperial government; (with no way to spend points in race creation for a government "technology".)
Imagination Reason: One might argue any number of possibilities but they just don't hold credence when compared to the fact that the imagination reason must apply to
all the civilizations.
Even so, I like to keep this one in mind...A super rich individual or corporation (Bill Gates maybe) secretly researches and develops a prototype starship. His intention is to escape a growing imperialism on the homeworld and found a new society else where.
The imperial government seizes the starship but finds that the individual and the researchers have gone in hidding. The government is even more dismayed to learn that all of the research data has been destroyed or hidden.
Now as time passes the imperial government must research new ways of governing a growing galactic civilization.
-Wade