So, I know battles are going to be fought over turns rather than on a single encounter, which I think is great. My main question is more "cosmetic" I guess. Namely, will there be cinematics like in GalCiv3?

I realise I'm most likely in the minority among other grand strategy/4X players, but what really sold me on GalCiv3 over other games in the genre is the fact that you can visually design your ships to the most intricate level of detail and on top of that watch them go at it with other ships in very nice looking cinematic battles.

At the moment, of course, battles just happen on the map, which is understanable since it's still on Alpha, so I'm just wondering, how much more will that be fleshed out