


It names regions by default which just adds a whole lorey feel and makes good references for stories and planning. It also makes space feel interesting, with varieties of 'terrain'. Maybe you want to be an empire that doesn't even have planets, you are just based on ships and starbases totally possibleĭW:U is the sci-fi dream of catering all sorts of stuff that can happen in space. Or maybe you wanna be like a proper pirate faction and just raid merchant ships all your life Secret bases, stealth ships, lots of agents for intelligence missions or assassinations. You can create an Orion Syndicate style organisation with your pirate faction. They now become responsible for the 'corruption' value that loses Empires gold, because they now represent criminal elements like casinos and robberies and so forth. In DW you can even play as pirates, which changes up the whole dynamic of how you play.Īlso the pirates also provide just how criminal networks apply to the mechanics that are usually abstracted in other games.
