I used to love this game back in the day, looking back the game really isn't that great. The land battles are ass, and the space battles while incredibly pretty back then don't really have any depth to them. You can click attack move in the general direction of the enemy and then go into the cinematic mode for 99% of fights. The strategic galactic map part also needed more too it, you can't just give it the typical building and research content from a traditional base building RTS and expect that to carry a Total War style campaign map. Still a fun game though, and I probably played it for over a thousand hours with mods and stuff.
As for Tyber Zann and his Zann Consortium, never liked it really. What was wrong with one of the dozens of other crime syndicates Star Wars has established? Why did we need a brand new original one just for this game? The shit they pull off during their story is also completely ridiculous, stealing the fucking Eclipse? Uncovering a carbonite frozen Sith army which you know will never go anywhere because it is never mentioned elsewhere in the EU? Should have just done something low key about building up a criminal underworld power and profiteering off the GCW.