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It would be cool to use scanners to explore space to find things not normally found on a basic star map, things such as wrecks of battles (scrap them for mats or even background story (if any is going to be present). Also would be cool to find hidden asteroid belts or unknown planets to check out. All in all I believe there could be a great deal of events added to the game based on it, possible hidden treasure troves even that ping a single to pirates to try to jump you as a trap. Just throwing more ideas out there

Just more ideas to spitball out there, hope these aren't getting annoying lmao.

Anyways Drones would be cool, could modify them to fit specific needs or roles, some with tech to repair the ship or even others with weapons, even a mode to kamikaze the drones into any enemies as a last resort would be awesome, or even some drones to help explore space to find any hidden stuff to check out. Not sure how the travel system will work in this game.

Some kind of antimatter cannons would be awesome, highly experimental, high tech. Perhaps without enough research the weapons could be potentially hazardous to the ship itself. Would take a great deal of research to master.

Lasers are all cool and dandy, but the ability to balance the rate of fire or the ability to charge for high power shots that take more energy would be amazing. Like maybe on low power it could pew pew, but on high power it would charge a great deal and deliver one big pew. Best explanation ever.

It would be cool to have different divisions of people to fall into different roles of the ship, along with researching different technologies or even improving current ones.
Science folk could research, or provide enhancements to tech items (maybe faster shield recharge, lowering weapon energy use, ect).
Engineering folk could repair, build or upgrade devices.
Warfare folk could scan systems for hostiles, increase evasion to attacks, or even faster shots from mechanical weapons (projectile or even missiles)