Are there any plans to populate the space/night sky with images of far off galaxies, nebula, pulsars, etc?asked by Cliff

So the simple answer is "yes, there are plans".Longer term we're actually planning to probably build the, what we call I guess the "sky sphere" or "space sphere" where you see the nebula and all the stuff that, for instance, you can see now on Crusader you can see in the Arena Commander modules, and have that dynamically built from the overall Starmap module. So it gets generated with the stars and the background and nebula off in the distance and that be appropriate for whichever star system you are in. Haven't done that yet but that is on our engineering graphics pipeline.