I seem to remember one of the nodewars was going to use the FS2 engine to simulate battles, but basically it was going to be (pretty much) a turn based strategy-type game with FreeSpace 2 gameplay (i.e. you fly a fighter, and maybe use the comm menu to boss around ships)... perhaps this is related?
I had a thought just now, that maybe instead of prodding Nuke (and by extension me), we (read "I") could find out whether Nuke would mind expanding the team slightly (possibly one or two more members, probably doing mostly coding). That would, however, require better management of the code... all of the work that Nuke and I did on this project was either taking turns with the files or confirming the other guy wasn't working with a particular block of code, fiddling with it, and sending that block to the other guy. That probably wouldn't work so well with 3-4 people.
I'll try to find out what he thinks of the idea sometime today or in the next few days. I do not want to have people asking to join the team before Nuke gives his feedback on this... and I probably don't want to have people asking to join anyway (I'll probably do something like getting people I know to nominate/vote for someone other than themselves, or something sneaky like that).