I'd love to see more unusual planet types, such as described in Larry Niven's Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring. These are planets with no surface. Only plants or other unusual formations, dust and gas captured in the legrange point of a gas giant and a star or such. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smoke_Ring_(novel)
That is actually a very interesting idea, though perhaps hard to carry out in this system. I almost think it would be a better mod than integral feature, but that's just me. I do like it though, and I hope that it bears some fruit!
It sounds interesting, but how would it work gameplay-wise? how will a player move around, what would there be to do, interact with, all that stuff?