Making Disco a RTS?
Why not write something like an Empire at War mod and let the players continue to do their thing?
And preexisting characters can fly around with their own special bits, like the LNS Tundra.
For example, Byron Hall, my Core| guy in the Spatial, would get a massive bonus vs. Capship shields ('cause I pack an ASURAS), but be ungodly expensive (for a snub).