[@Mattmanganon] You've got a couple of broken pictures. Weirdly, they work if I copy-paste the link into my address bar. Specifically, they're the Levinti male appearance and the Kellicus-class Air-space Fast Attack Mecha.

I find the concept of military-by-senate endearingly bureaucratic (which is a [good?] thing).

Hmm. Have you been watching [i]Babylon 5[/i] lately? :P

...anyway, I was starting to get a little alarmed by the planet-ship, but was relieved to see its [color=#DDBBEE][i][b]planet-busting superweapon[/b][/i][/color] completely and irrevocably destroyed as well as no motivation to remake it. Plus, you know, you don't have FTL. So that helps your case. Accepted.