[CaptainCrunch]

Don't get me wrong, I've always had this dream game in mind that I would die for.

3 factions

two military and one chaotic

Each would have 4 classes

line officers (Navigators, pilots, gunners)
Fighter/Bomber Pilots
Troopers (infantry)
Engineers

When you start the game, you start at a lowely rank and can progress to a high command rank where if your a trooper, you become a general, if your a line officer you can rise to ship captancy and then to commanding fleets
If your a pilot, you can become a squadron commander, a wing commander or a theatre commander
If your an engineer, you can rise to ship designer.

you crew massive ships and fight against the other factions. You can battle for your empire, or if your chaotic, profit as a pirate chief or smuggler or worse.

You can fight ship to ship, launch fighters, send boarding parties. Or bombard and invade planets.

If you're a admiral or general, you become more strategic minded and your gaming experience really changes as you pass orders to your fleet, or your army or your fighters.

But technically I can never see a game like this made, plus you'd need millions of players to have it function properly.

On top of that the jerk players would join the game and then go out and assassinate other players to steal their roles, so you'd basically have a bunch of Klingon running around trying to seize command

The game company would act as central command the three factions, sending them out on strategic missions. Maybe you're sides central command is evil and you don't see it until you rise high enough to get the real commands about exterminating enemy civilians.

Maybe your with the pirates and you see that they're merciless butchers. So you defect to another side.

I think that this is the type of game that Chris Roberts really wanted, but he might not be able to deliver it.