I think it be cool with the more dangerous monsters if say they do implement the security systems and if their are turrets or automatic doors and you use a solar energy to power them is there is a Eclipse then it would power them down and unless you had batteries storing energy to prevent them powering down your base would be open to attack!!!
Have to disagree with you. It's true that they are not random, but every solar system has it's own set of eclipses, and some planets may never have an eclipse, so it would be something that might be hard to predict. Perhaps you need a tech added to your ship in order to be able to determine such things?
I´d like to see a planet who is always night or day. A "Dungeon Planet" ;D Special Biome, monsters like in a Dungeon but in an small (?) planet size like in Pitch Black Some abandoned mines, siencelabs, with some scattered notes whats happening and why all are gone. The monsters don´t have to be some "Alien" like creatures maybe they research on bioweapons and some thing gone wrong -> zombies ;D (main issue original)