I played with the rebellion without editing any of the values placed in the original game. It was about 1200, when the empire came with his death star named Raze... No magic. I played on hard, with huge galaxy. In the beginning I bombarded all of my planets until they joined the empire and left them, that just the HQ remained. It was an enviromental crisis! I had -200 maint. and so on. So the game became Very hard and enjoyable for pro's to... Imagine! I had only 3 planets, when the DS arrived at Raltiir! But Luke, Han and Borsk (as a jedi trainee) blowed that thing up! Since this savegame isn't finished yet, i can't tell if there will be a second DS built. I also played Very Hard with the empire (i had just Corellia on my side)