I want to feel POWER!

What I want in a Space 4x game, and what I miss way too often, is the feeling of power.

I want to feel powerful.

Having a big fleet or many armies is not the end to this feeling. It's just the beginning.

I want to know how many people are on my planets, how many people serve on my spaceships and stations. If I send my fleet into battle, and there are 100.000 People in there - or more - I want to KNOW that I send them into combat or maybe into death.

I want lots of lots of decissions that I can make to influence the comon man (or creature)

I want to feel the power over smaller planets. I want to go to planets that don't even know that I'm there. I want to go to planets where intelligence has not evolved. I want the possibility to mess with these creatures. I want to burry warmachines underground (like in the war of the worlds movie with Tom Cruise) and million years later I come back and suddenly awake them

I want to fly to an enemy planet and nuke it from orbit, WITHOUT invading it (like it was possible in MooII but in no other gave ever since)

I want to feel the POWER!