Hey Justin!!! This is AWESOME!!!!
I have to try it, but after you first, okie? And then we can have like mini-matches! Haha, if i can finish building a fleet and get off planet before it blows!! You know... this is Wonderful Wonderful News!! Sort of like Speed Chess, only Speed Sins!!!
I bet the tactics would fly fast and furious then.
Quick Starting with a built in Fleet would probably be a good thing. Start right out of the ... what do they call them things the race horses come out of? You know, like right from the start, haha.
Or you know what? This is a crazy thought, but what if you have a map, right? And we make this little mod with the Timer you made, and like we take out all the research for all of the races, and we drop like a 25 ship fleet right in the gravity well on start up. And no more ships, no more research, well, wrong idea. Leave in the research, just take out the factories to make ships.
Yes, that is better.
And now we have like "I have to live with what i got!!!"
And 30 minute timer ticking away, haha, or maybe an hour. Whatever. 
Sorry, im crazy tonight, but your idea is Wonderful!!! And Soooooooooooooooooooooooo Coooooooooooool!!!!!! 
Congratulations!!!!
We are very proud of you Justin, lots of hard work paid off!!! 
-Teal