I am hoping that the Sins crew can put one together and release it. An updated, more user friendly Galaxy Forge would be very very much apreciated.

Here is an updated Galaxy Forge, with all the bonuses and artifacts. Beware though, i made it myself and it can be a little user unfriendly .

Also, it contains the planets/bonuses/etc of the Distant Mod for Diplomacy, so even if you could create a map with some  mod-objects, the vaniila diplomacy won't recognise them and minidump.

I noticed that you must overwrite the GalaxyScenarioDef from the Diplomacy/Gameinfo folder with the one from the Galaxy Forge folder in order for the bonuses/artifacts to work.

Here's the tool. Use at your own risk !

http://www.filefront.com/15613593/GalaxyForge.zip

L.E. : Here's a more user friendly version :

http://www.filefront.com/15613845/GalaxyForge.zip