Idea for a spin-off game
I was thinking, for fun, about how to make an eventually 3rd chapter different from the previous 2, but still keeping the classic features of the serie...
What about using the classic sci-fi trope of the "space-whale" and make the protagonist's ship eaten by a gargantuan-class creature living into the asteroid belt of a sistem? A creature so big to have an entire ecosystem inside.
We could think initially to be stucked into a cave, then realize that's a living thing, exploring it's different "organs"(biomes) and maybe even the outside, so we can try some space-related alterra technology (like the unseen spacemoth)
What did you think about it? Could it be an interesting variation? Personally I was always fascinated by the idea of spacewales, should be awsom exploring one in and out discovering it's biology through pda.