First of all, glad to be part of the community of a brilliant game.

#1 Direct ship control: I know this is a bit far-fetched but, is it possible to implement direct ship control into the game, the ability to manually control ships. Two ways I thought of is either by using the move command but, instead of clicking where you want the ship to go, the ship moves to where you point the arrow/marker displayed when using the move command, the other way is by setting hotkeys that controls the ship animations/movement eg. pressing a certain hotkey makes the ship turn left, pressing another hotkey makes the ship move forward. There is no files that handles controls or movement commands that can be modified (not that I know of) but, still, does anyone think that this can be possible.

#2 Militia Tutorial: I found an easy way of adding random militia in the Galaxy Forge without needing to edit the map file manually (except for a quick tweak or two). If there are not tutorials already and anyone might find such a tutorial useful I can write a quick tutorial on how I added random militia on a 8 star, 239 planet map within half an hour. If there are any better or faster way to add militia, please let me know where I can find such info.