I have been reading alot of the more recent suggestions and it appears that alot of people are finding the game to be getting a bit to easy. So I was thinking what could be done to make it a bit more challenging and I came upon a few old posts that mentioned possible invasions. And I thought thats a great idea, why dont we have an invasion.

A
For instance what if there were suddenly alien ships appearing in one sector that were attacking/killing all the bots and doing the same to any human players that happened to enter that sector. There could be a variety of different invading ships with some that are extremely difficult to kill (capital ships) and takes the combined efforts of many players to take down, to invaders that are as weak as orun bots. They could slowly start spreading into other areas and possibly even taking over space stations which would have to be retaken or something. And people could reclaim sectors by destroying all the invaders in that sector, and if the invaders managed to get an entire solar system under control, they could either start spreading to other systems or just stay in the system they have taken, making it so players who feel the game is to easy, can just jump into that system and it would suddenly be alot more difficult.

B
Or instead of an invasion we could just *discover* a new wormhole in one solar system that leads to a new solar system filled with extremely powerful aliens (who kill on sight) and people who are finding the current game getting to easy can go and have a challenge in defeating the aliens in that solar system.

I like it! I think suggestion B is actually in the game design, and planned for implementation someday. Also see thread:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/7196#86572