My vision on this, is to have the ability to log-in and be given the choice to jump aboard one of the already deployed and on patrol (and unmanned, AI controlled) submarines in different zones. The faction (manned and unmanned units) has to gather and share the gathered intelligence in order to have the best possible tactical awareness for the others.
At a later development my dream is to have a sub simulator interfaced with a political simulator, with a number of virtual nations in play. The sub simulator being just a portion of the whole... Flight simulators, Infantry simulators and so on, would be part of the whole as well.
The political simulator would be the trigger for campaigns / battles
If SH5 takes even a single one of those aspects into account, it would be simply fantastic