I'll go ahead and voice my concerns about power creeping, because I think we're beginning to see it. I'm even guilty of a little bit of it in the OOC banter. THe number of these "super-dreadnought-titan-doomstar-whatever" vessels is currently 3 now? I won't say that it has to be zero because that's completely unfair of me. I would say though that [i]would you really dispatch the biggest thing in your fleet into a completely unknown situation like this?[/i] Realism aside, because realism is honestly boring, it presents the other problem of threatening by implication. Simply [i]having[/i] a superweapon in an area is implicitly threatening because of just how much force you [i]could[/i] project.

Now I see there's two camps that have begun to form. There's the people who probably or definitely have superweapons, but are choosing to play in a more clandestine fashion with smaller singular crafts and being covert. Then we've got the people who come straight in with the biggest ship they have as a personal transport essentially. I am partial to the former approach but I won't assert one is better than the other. I will however assert that the two are at odds with each other and don't interact well. Those people with the clandestine stealth approach are never in their right minds going to expose themselves to something that could vaporize them by looking at them funny.

As I stated, I am partial to the small, lone ship running quietly approach. I think its more interesting. I also have a multitude of bad experiences with the power games that come from starting off with ultra-dreadnought level scaling. At the very least, I think we need to take a moment and collectively have a discussion about exactly what we want this to be about. Do we intend to focus a bit more on the faction side of things as they throw fleets at anomalies, make alliances, and butt heads around uncharted worlds? Or would we rather focus on the personal stories of extraordinary characters as they brave the unknown and forge allies and enemies alike with no backup fleet coming to help them?

I would strongly argue for the personal stories, however I defer to the opinions of [@DragonofTheWest] and the group at large.