love the visuals!!! I was planning on blacking out the sky as well for one of my next maps, but the way it looks with those ships is simply badass!
the main reason i can't stand sony. there is a bunch of pics on my file share. but you should really see the vid. its probably more epic than the map, thanks to John Williams of course. if only we could upload soundtracks to our games... besides the licensing agreements it seems it would be fairly easy to pull off.