I actually really like this idea - the last surviving memeber of your race, without a world, making one last attempt to get back into the game. A good addition, I reckon. Though, much like the Terror Star, an addition that you should be able to disable if preferred.
The trick is in the balancing of the Terror Star. The unit itself should be armoured, but unable to return fire, vulnerable, and slow , necessitating an escort at all times. It'll be an easy target for anyone who can get a decent ship close. You'd need your entire fleet dedicated solely to defending it when everyone in the galaxy wants it stopped. Giving it a charge time on its main weapon will also make it very vulnerable. Furthermore, just to get a Terror Star, you nee
It occurs to me that another solution to the "problem" of adding stuff to hardpoints and ruining the overall aesthetic would be to mod the game in such a way that functional components can be shrunk down down to literally zero - thus allowing you to attach them to a hardpoint and add the functionality to the ship, without actually adding the visual component. Not even sure if it's possible, but it would be the perfect solution, especially when addling large components (constructor/tra
