Just encounter this ship in OROS while test playing it. Planet behind the background is the actual planet where trade happened.

Since game already has 9 different spaces and each of them has unique ship which all are color I think somekind of generic version would be the best. So maybe long ship with big engines but no weapons. It could be boxy looking or rounded. There are both types in the game. There are couple of races which have spikes but those spikes are mainly in combat ships.

I'll add links which kind of ships game now has.

Small freighter is first on right handside on first row from top. Medium freighter is second from the right handside on second row. Large freighter is just on row below the medium one. Massive freighter is on last row second from the lasthand side.

Links:

Human: https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/blob/master/src/main/re...

Centaurs: https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/blob/master/src/main/re...

Greyans: https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/blob/master/src/main/re...

Homarians: https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/blob/master/src/main/re...

Mechions: https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/blob/master/src/main/re...

Mothoids: https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/blob/master/src/main/re...

Scaurians: https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/blob/master/src/main/re...

Sporks: https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/blob/master/src/main/re...

Teuthidaes: https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/blob/master/src/main/re...

There is new release available in:

https://github.com/tuomount/Open-Realms-of-Stars/releases

This release has been quite big changes. There are government types for realms. So called board player which now controls space pirates. Space contains now space anomalies which wait for explorers to claim the riches or faces the dangers.

Governments are related to planet new value called happiness. Happy planets produce more and unhappy planet produce less or in very extremes even buildings or population is being destroyed. There totally 17 different governments, but only 8 different ones. Reason for so many names is that each Realm name must be unique and it is created from government + space race and I wanted the possibility that there can 8 same space races in one game. Government can also give advantages like production or trade bonus but also disadvantage like negative happiness, weak war fatigue. War fatigue also causes unhappiness to planets if war continues long or Realm has multiple wars at same time. There are also special goverments which are AI for Mechion, Hive-Mind for Mothoids and Nest of Homarians. These government totally ignore the happiness system. These work like the "governments" in the older version of the game.

Second big changes was the "board" player. I got the idea from board games where board plays against the players. This board player controls Space Pirates which start on Starbases. Every now and then they will get tech upgrade and new ships + starbases improvements to their old bases. Pirate ships try to hunt other ships in the galaxy and pirate lairs(aka space pirate stations) generate more ships. 

Third big changes was the space anomalies. These look like nebulae on map. When exploring ship enters the same sector anomaly is revealed. It can contain some good stuff like credits, maps, tech or ships. It may also contain dangerous stuff(if selected when galaxy is being configured) like wormholes, more space pirates.

Following screenshot contains starmap where is visible Wormhole, space pirate lair and unexplored space anomaly:

Second screenshot contains new popup display used when space anomalies are being explored:

All of the pictures used in space anomalies are available here in OGA.

This song starts so intense and sound very cool! In my opinion melacholy part is too different compared to other parts. It sounds like different song. But first three part of this song pure awesomeness. I get strong Ur-Quan Master feeling about this song.