With the announcement of Villages, as seen here, could we perhaps see bounty hunters as well? Let's say you're a not-so-good space explorer, and destroy one of these villages. My idea is that doing this will put a bounty out on your name, and you'll randomly have bounty hunters attacking you until your bounty wears off. Let me know what you think.
I think it would make the gameplay a lot more interesting! Would be funny if the raging villagers tried to destroy your base though
But there could /potentially/ be those things without implementation. Like, I could start a small clan of people who get payed to kill other players. ( this is, of course, an assumption depending on how multiplayer works. )