I was wondering, but could the Bounty Hunter's Guild be added as a group where you could hire them as units and after a certain amount of time, you would have to repay them to keep using them.

we were talking about having hirable units at UEAW it sounds like a good idea

considering the situation the forum wars universe is in

units should be earned through battle

like the starship from andromeda
or the sulaco
or gunstars from the last starfighter
ships should be earned determined by your factino and who you help like
lets say your covenant
maybe you could gain wraith ship

it would be confusing but a bounthunter guild would be unlickely to form so soon after a universal shift

There is one in the FW universe.

And it's been quite a while since the universal shift .

i like this idea lets say that chaos capture an Asgard planet after the battle the get an Asgard ship this only occurs once and you get a ship or a few fighters for the bounty hunters guild they would likely rely on armed transports and fighters with heavy modification so one could hire them to bolster their fleet. The same could be done for mercenaries from new Eden.

Basically the tech tree deals with this. Though it won't open all units to each faction, indeed not the majority methinks, when specific planets are captured it opens the possibility to research specific things which require that planet to research, sometimes including ships.

i aint talkin bout no tech trees in galactic conquest with regular empire at war you would sometimes get a mission that would allow you to gain access to a pirate ship

mostly the frigate but you couldnt build it
and in a skirmish if you captured a space station you could build it

what needs to be decided is for what factions what ships get builded
and for what factions what ships can be earned

[warning raloks ideas ignore at all costs]
halo human faction
gunstars
sulaco

stargate human faction
ancient warship
andromeda

covenant
wraith hive ship
klingon bird of pray

like that
the bounty hunters guild is going to be confusing conseidering that there are bounty hunters in alot of sci fi universes