I am thinking of running a game in the Starcraft universe, one of my favorite sci-fi franchises. The major concerns I have are equipment and psychic abilities. Neither should be all that difficult. Should be easy enough to find equivalents for various technologies- there's already a suit of powered armor, it's not that hard to come up with Starcraft equivalents of equipment from Edge of the Empire that don't explicitly exist in Starcraft, though they may need some tweaks. Blaster weaponry for instance might be rarer.

Has anybody thought about this or done some of the work already? I'd anyone interested in playing such a thing online?

I would just reflavor things. Force Rating and Force powers are Psyche and Psychic powers. Blasters become slug weapons or whatever.

I know its super awesome to rebuild new careers and specializations, but then you have to worry about balance, and if you're already playing that means forcing changes on the players and more downtime.

It's all about color. That's my vote.