It most likely won’t contain quite what you’re looking for, but note that Board Game Geek has a Variants forum for Galaxy Trucker.
From a quick glimpse over these, seems like most aren’t willing to make such a drastic gameplay change as fully changing the second half :( I think BGG often falls into this trap of not willing to suggest bolder changes.Two people touch upon variants with changes second stage: - [Galaxy Trucker should be simply a racing game](https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1129279/galaxy-trucker-should-be-simply-racing-game)* - [Cooperative Variant for Younger Kids](https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1932053/cooperative-variant-younger-kids)*Assuming from name only and replies. Unfortunately original post is gone and web.archive is down right now.
It most likely won’t contain quite what you’re looking for, but note that Board Game Geek has a Variants forum for Galaxy Trucker.
From a quick glimpse over these, seems like most aren’t willing to make such a drastic gameplay change as fully changing the second half :( I think BGG often falls into this trap of not willing to suggest bolder changes.
Two people touch upon variants with changes second stage:
- [Galaxy Trucker should be simply a racing game](https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1129279/galaxy-trucker-should-be-simply-racing-game)*
- [Cooperative Variant for Younger Kids](https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1932053/cooperative-variant-younger-kids)
*Assuming from name only and replies. Unfortunately original post is gone and web.archive is down right now.