Looking back on Empires, I remember there was at one point dragon cavalry within the ranks of my army, which I don't even remember removing. One of the posts even references "XD001" as a secret weapon, which I'm pretty sure was just a Shadow Lugia.
But like, point being, I like being able to do ridiculous excrement in these games: It differentiates it from regular sci-fi. This is why I'm going to have dubstep blaring in the battlefield for every battle involving the Vis, once we actually get to that point.
But the limitation on ridiculousness creates some problems, because I now have no idea how to interact with this potentially highly advanced civilization without an instant translation button >_>