As title said, my DM tasked me to look for a space based-game to run when he's back from his honeymoon and whatnot (so I've got time
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The idea is that in the campaign we're the crew of a spaceship going around (I'm unsure if it will be something more similar to Firefly, or Stargate: Universe, or Andromeda or some other similar tv-show, but it will be something along those lines).
The backup idea is adapting Star Wars D20 (revised, I prefer it over saga) minus the jedi/force, or Cyberpunk 2020 for it, but I'd rather not resort to that (even tried to push for some mecha action and put Mekton for a Gundam style game, but failed
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What I'm looking for in a system is something with a complete set of rules (the less adjudicating is left to the DM, the better), possibly including spaceship combat and custom spaceships building and that allows for a meaningful differentiation and optimization of the characters if possible (the more customization the better). Levels/classes or not is not an issue, I'm ok either way.
There are some systems I'm considering, but I'd like to get some feedback before mentioning them (also it will give me a chance to read a bit more about them than just whatever is in their intro
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