Spacewhales and Moby Dick quest

Hey guys,

I had an idea for a new feature for endless space 2: Spacewhales

(Sorry for spelling/gramma mistakes im not native)

Spacewhales

Spacewhales are giant creatures as big as Spaceships.

Their bahaviour is very similar to the whales we know from earth. 

They travel through the galaxy in schools (fleets) with up to 7 whales (ships).

There are grown up whales and weaker calfes.

This Is a picture I found on the internet which could give you and idear how it would look like:

They don't use star lanes and travel really slow and occasionally make stops at solar systems where they stay 3 turns to fill up their solar energy.

Multiple schools meet each other to reproduce at star systems every 45 turns for 5 turns.

As soon as a school of spacewhales is in the same system as one of your ships an event screen pops up where you are able to choose between:

I did not include exact numbes because they would not be balanced

a) Research

+ Science (3 turns)

Activates a side quest:

Mark the whales with a transmitter to have vision on them.

Visit this system at the right time to get another event screen and choose between Research/Tourism/Hunt once again to gain even better boni that last 5 turns.

Supports science party

b) Tourism

+ Happyness (3 turns)

+ Influence (3 turns)

Supports ecologic party

c) Hunt

- Happyness if pacifist/ecologic party is in the senate

You are able to kill the whales by batteling them with a fleet.

They are really tanky but can only attack on close range (but deal alot of damage).

+ Food

+ Space whale Oil (Luxury resource)

   - No concept on how to use it

per kill

Supports military party

Moby Dick quest

 Quest activates after researching a signal in a random star system.

 You find captain Ahabs broken ship Pequop floating in the orbit of a random planet.

 He will ask you to help him hunt Moby Dick the white spacewhale, who will spawn in a random star system and will travel just like other spacewhales. 

 Moby Dick is way stronger than normal spacewhales and will attack every ship that stops in the same system as him. You definitely need multiple ships to take him down and it will be a hard fight.

 If you succesfully hunted Moby Dick down Captain Ahab will join your empire as a hero with his huge and powerful ship Pequop thats equipped with a deadly arsenal of ranged weapons.

 Ahab himself is a guardian class hero that starts with your academy level and has an ability called "Moby Dicks Trophy" (Moby Dicks skeleton build into his ship) that grants a damage/resistance bonus while fighting agianst enemy fleets lead by a hero.