Has anybody ever heard of Armada-Online?

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/armadaonline/index.html?q=armada%20online

http://www.armada-online.com/

Looks interesting......

Thanks, I hadn't heard of it before. But if you are looking for the ultimate space-based online RPG, then EVE online is the thing.
http://www.eve-online.com/

Massive space battles (sometimes up to 300 vs 300), huge alliances, trading, mining, pirating, missions, etc. Oh, and up to 30,000 simultaneous players all on the one server.

Wow, great fun. Thanks for posting about this great little game. DLed after reading your post and been addicted ever since.