Suggestions for a skySphere

I'm trying to figure out how to trick the SceneManager into letting me create a skySphere. Does anyone know if this is possible? Even a skyBox would work if I could skin the bottom plane.

This is to be a starfield for a simple space shooter.

Did you try following the tutorials yet?
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/PyOgre_Beginner_Tutorial_3#Sky

Yes I did. But I did not push the skyBox far enough. That looks like it may work after all. While reading the Wiki I thought I had read that a skyBox could not have the bottom surface skinned. But that does not seem to be the case. It must have been a reference to one of the other two skytypes.

Thanks Jason.Off building skyBoxes now.