The space monster, since no animations.. would have to be an organic textured looking ship of some sort, that maybe, Has the ability to phase in and out whenever it pleases, kinda of like on that one episode of ENTERPRISE where the big ball of plazma randomly pops out and sucks things in it. Just a REALLY strong ship *MONSTER* w/e, that phazeing in and out randomly attacking things breifly.

that would be cool

I believe they intend to add random events (they already mentioned that for future patch releases) which I assume will entail things like what is suggested here.

So I was thinking alot about the Kraken... and if it is just going to spawn at the beginning of the game and guard a specific planet, that planet should be more important than just a regular terran colonizeable planet to give more incentive to really push for it so I was thinking, why not a factory world?

At first I was thinking it should have an artifact on it, but even that is just not quite enough value for the risk, a factory world would basically be a Terran planet with a high amount of fortification available as well as defense capabilities, but, it should have a built in "remnants of the dark fleet" type of capability that would randomly spawn small groups of ships, perhaps to make it interesting they could be from any race type although you would still be able to control them, no cap ships though that might be too overpowered, To keep those who are minding their ship cap happy it would have to be from a building, perhaps an indestructible one. I would probably use a custom model

So im seriously thinking about downloading the mod tools and trying this, although im working 2 jobs and time to work on it is sparse, I figure I have some experience making mods so this is doable, getting a model (unanimated) for the space kraken would be first, maybe give it less of a "tentacle" style attack and more of a futuristic mecha kraken beam weapon, If I have to build one from scratch that could be time consuming, but texturing shouldnt be a problem.

The next would be creating the world and the building... judging from that mod of Uzil's (sp?) out I dont think this would be too much of a problem

Does anyone predict a problem with this, having a random planet in the maps that is guarded by a unique ship with a unique indestructible building in orbit around it? Any feedback you want to give to me before I sit down and really try to map this out? Anyone else who wants to take this idea and run with it where they may is more than welcome, or welcome to group with me for idea's or support.

The Vasari Skirantra Carrier can do this with it's Level 6 Replicate Forces ability. Maybe modding a super-version of this ability into the monster-ship could work?