I wouldnt thought online was really possible anyway. You could make a program to poll a server and get the location of each ship in the sector, then downloads it into a log file. A script could read in the log file and move the ships - it would technically work and be 'online', but rather jumpy. Really the only way to do online correctly, is by having the source files and getting some cleaver dicks to look at it and add in online support. ie. The people at egosoft unfortunately, who are busy with Rebirth.