Starfire (Wss Re: Space Operas)

I was thinking about Starfire the other day as I was looking over the
Campaign Designer's Handbook for SFB (which contained a shameless
Starfire
plug).	As I recall, ships in Starfire don't have FTL drives, but go
from
system to system via warp points.  Adapt this concept to FT, and you get
a
pretty evil result, namely an extra 25% of mass to devote towards
weapons
and systems.  Has anyone out there tried a campaign using this type of
background, and how did it turn out?

Just curious,

Tre