It would be sweet to have a map where the empire is sieging a rebel astroid base and to have those being piloted in dropping off several AT-AT's and squads of players.

As for commander abilities I like the idea but not a death star weapon due to the incesent flash, death, respawn of it's firing.  A cool idea to incorperate it though would be an episode 6 situation of a rebel fleet attacking it's back and the attempt to hold them off until the station could turn around while the fleet attacks and troops assult the core reactor, even turn it into a two part map set, after the failed/successful attack the rebels/imperials have to flee the system creating a big space battle.

Run Rebels if you can

As for ATAT spawning on hoth, we have some very interesting things planned as of this moment.  I don't think I should comment on specifics due to the fact that they may not be fully possible, but I will say that if our plans come to fruition.....you will be amazed and spectaculafied

I like to hear your ideas, quite a few good ones in this thread.  I especially like the idea of manning several guns at once, that way we could hopefully pick a convergence point for the projectiles which would give the illusion of a maximum effective range while not losing the effect.  However, I really like the idea of having at least half of the turbolasers AI controlled to increase the awesomeness and immersion of space battles, this would also free up more people to pilot starfighters and transports

Keep the ideas coming.

They don't really have to be dangerous. Make the AI shoot lasers, but maybe it could be a flak effect where they only target specific areas in space where the lasers would explode creating flak. Think D-day air drops. Stray into the flak and you're a goner. There can also be lasers that are merely harmless and are ambient effects that give the battle more intensity.