@Hawkeye
I recommend you get Forged Alliance (the standalone expansion for Sup Com - you can get it for a tenner) and check out the online community at Forged Alliance Forever. It's brilliant. I don't usually do RTS - deep strategy is my thing, but FAF is different.
Thanks for the suggestion, but the original game is _still_ shrink-wrapped on the shelf LOL. I just don´t have the time to play somehting else between Aurora, WITP-AE and the occational EVE burst.
Edit: Oh, and I have recently (couple of months ago) started to get into Starfire (the board game that lead to Aurora), so there is even _less_ time available for anything else now.