As an EVE Online player I say you most
ADD ALL SOLAR SYSTEMS, PLANETS AND MOONS!

No good fps doesn't have a zombie map... corp hires merc outfit to see what's wrong with a research post, the go in to find out that black market cloning/bioweapon/chemweapon etc. Research has turned all the residents into zombies and to make matters worse an opposing merc outfit shows up to steal the research in hopes of a 1 time use weapon in a future battle.

Something I have always loved in any game is the idea of a "Living" map. One where you can preform actions to change how the map is laid out, or alter local effects. An example would be a closed in facility where all the lights cut from time to time. Or another, a Skirmish map where hacking a large crane clears a section of a barricade to give the attackers a much faster path to the enemy control points.

Blood Raiders - while they predate Firefly - are basically Firefly's Reavers.

The idea's that have been put through lets face it are great.

now im not sure if this idea has already been put forward i read similar to what im about to say so sorry if i mis-read a post.

But like the ideas lots of people have had of downed ships (crashed on surface).

so lets say a black ops ship has infiltrated an enemy relay and down loaded star maps of the location of the current positions of enemy ships.

its chased and shot down crashing in to a planet. ( insert race specific ship here ) is now on the planet surface the crew dead the ship systems beyond repair the only thing left of any value is the information it holds.

1 race lands to the north of the wreckage while the other race lands to the south,

race one are here to retrieve the stolen data as not to let it fall in to enemy hands, race 2 are here to collect the information to help with strategic attacks to there enemy.

each soldier has a auto download system built into there drop suit that acts as a relay to the drop ship in orbit. But to down load the information the soldier must be within a certain proximity to the computer on board the wrecked ship. As more friendly soldiers enter the area the information is dispersed among them allowing a faster retrieval time, but as enemy soldiers enter the area the download speed slows. if the same about of enemy and friendly soldiers are in the area the computer is overwhelmed by the amount of different systems and does not upload to either race.

only when one race has completed the download can they leave in the knowledge that there the only ones with that information.

Not really. Reavers are mindlessly violent killers. Blood Raiders very calmly abduct people and harvest their blood.

I'd rather see the NPC factions given some flesh as it were.

Sanshas are already "zombies" (Borg).

Blood Raiders - while they predate Firefly - are basically Firefly's Reavers.

Most of the rest are pretty mundane by comparison. (Sarpati Serpentis is apparently nuttier than a fruitcake though, so perhaps he goes off the deep end and goes all Joker on us or something.)

So DUST needs TWO zombie maps, one Sansha and one Blood Raider.