Well, peace treaties are one option. You can also wage intergalactic war and enact massive-scale battles that you just can't do on a single-character basis. I'm not forcing any single path of diplomacy, so pretty much any reaction to another nation is fair game.

There are also going to be a few opportunities to have individual characters. Due to the fact that we're set in the middle of the Phazon War, there's a pretty big threat hanging over us that should be dealt with, and the phazon threat will present opportunities for at least one or two segments were a few individuals from each race are being RP'd.

Most of all, there's a lot of on-the-fly character creation, and I don't require a form for spur-of-the-moment characters like ship captains.