Trav'ling Canuck
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If something like this were to happen I hope it'd be in the mode of Beyond Earth, as it's own separate game that you can start and play on its own, but which would also have an option to let you "evolve" your civ from the end of Civ7 into one of the Civ options there.
(Now, there might be some issues with that idea, for instance, it'd be coolest if your opponents in Civ7 also evolved into their spacefaring counterparts, but if you've eliminated them, that gets tricky. Also, would you continue on playing Ashoka on another planet? But details aside, this is how I'd hope to see a "fourth age" represented were we to ever get one.)
That's an interesting idea. Market it as a stand-alone game, but include mechanics to allow you to transition from Civ 7. It's a potentially natural evolution of the Civ 7 crisis/transition mechanics (which we've still seen nothing substantive about, hence my use of "potentially"), let's them appeal to gamers who only like the sci fi stuff, and it may reduce allocations of "you're selling as a DLC things that should have been in the base game".