Extended Edition iOS Beta Test and Feedback!

Played for a couple hours so far and the difficulty has increased. I play withe Val halla carrier and I tried the easy and normal and am finding them both challenging. Starting out with more scrap would make the beginning of the game less tedious. I noticed that in the easy some of the systems are green and I have found Pirate stations. Once I have defeated them I don't get are ward and the systems stays green. I'm not sure if this is intentional but getting a reward for defeating a Pirate and then the system changing to yellow to show that it was cleared made more sense.