Feature list

Conquest

1) Fleets that patrol around sectors/clusters/between galaxies. Also, invasion fleets which target specific zones. Boarding fleets which try to capture stations. There are also Invasion fleets which seek out the player wherever the player may be!

2) Large Scale Intergalactic wars between different factions for control of zones! Some factions will fight each other and try to take over zones. Factions can be completely wiped out.

3) Player can take over zones and fight wars as well. There are also various diplomacy options for diplomacy with NPC factions.

4) NPC factions will try to defend their territory and take back territory lost.
5) If a faction loses enough territories its strength will decrease and it will have less ships until eventually it is gone.
6) Xenon will try to invade and destroy everything! 
7) Split will try to control their home sector and defend it, but they do not leave the sector.
8 ) Argon will try to hold Xenon back and expand into Maelstrom

9) PMC, HOA and ROC will be fighting a massive war
10) Reivers will try to take over all of Devries.
11) HOA will try to liberate Albion.
12) Sovereign Syndicate are allied with HOA but only marginally. They won't fight each other but are both vying for zones and power.
 

Economy 

1) Changes to the Devries economy. More stations in Devries, but not a full economy.
2) New Ships variants and some entirely new ships.
3) Factions replace destroyed stations by trying to build with CV's 
4) Corporations attempt to build new stations which must be fully constructed with CV's requiring all resources.
5) All ships built or produced have a function now. You can also sell ships to other factions, gift them to other factions, etc. and they will work for those factions.

6) Full economy for the Heretic Vanguard.

7) Simplistic economy for Xenon.

Piracy

1) "Plunder" capability for ships assigned to stations via Marvin's patch.

2) Xenon capital ships can be boarded (with some limitations - it is not possible to give them drones)