on the topic of the races of the game
they should make an expansion where it's not so much a change in the technology but a change in the story line, say the TEC are beginning to lose the war on both fronts, and they have no choice but to expand backwards into recently discovered star systems in an attempt to save their asses. when attempting to colonize the new worlds they run into 2 new races. they quickly encounter a race that the vasari encountered on the run 10,000 years agoand become allies in the war against the vasari, and the second race is long foe of that race. now the Tec find themselves in a desperate need to colonize new worldswhile fighting a war on three fronts with the help of their new found friends