Totally backing krells idea on the planetside missions. Even sending drones to survey the jump point planets.
Survey drones. I like the idea of also ship buildability. Making ships have upgreadable engines as well as upgradeable tech. Perhaps ships have hidden slots that unlock as you put the right scrap and green points into to unlock Jew slots. Tons of great ideas here but that planetside option would be a great way to explain the games lore on the aspect of how the trog went nuts. Even enabling for future iterations of the series about how colony planets were established.
