there was an old TC mod called Freelancer: Combat Evolved. It removed the arcady feel of space flight and added inertia and newtonian physics. space fights became games of chicken with magnetically accelerated cannons at 500+meters per second and all the ships were modeled from Halo until about Halo 3. Its a defunct community and some of my oldest fan-fic is archived there. Worked my way up to commanding a Marathon-class heavy cruiser in the UNSC and i was only 16. It wasn't long after i joined…