Re: Vote up a Space Opera
FTL: (See expanded vote in new post)
Hyperspace, sort of like Babylon 5, though slightly more forgiving. Beacons provide huge bonuses to Navigation, but you can sort of do it without (slowly). Small ships unlikely to have own hyperspace entry generator, and use gates (B5).
Humanity: A civilisation with a moderate domination. There are several other, related (how closely related?) humanoid species in the galaxy, but there are many levels of alien weirdness, from funny foreheads to starfish aliens. Think Star Control II.
Travel to new worlds:
Moderately hard. A new world discovery is not something that makes or breaks fortunes, but it is a news, sometimes profitable ones. The current starmaps contain many discovered-but-unused worlds, but those are not an easy source of instant income of any sort.
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