'What if?'

What if?
- Raid battles happened to stations for more interest in them.
-Tenants could man turrets and/or drones to protect the station by themselves.
-Bandits, bots, cultists, rogue penguins, floran cannibals. Many threats might come to attack, you never know what is coming!
-Depending on the star type, it changes the difficulty and type of enemies thrown at your?

What if?
-Tenants payments made a bit more sense?
-No simply the type of planet matters, people care about how nice their place is too! Whether if fancy or big.
-Stations with more dangerous stars give higher tier rent?
-What if you could choose the topic of what they payed you? Not this randomness.

What if?
- You could see more details (Without mods) on various things?
-DPS for different weapons and the ability to directly compare them
-A demonstration of special abilities for weapons without testing them yourself?
-A simple and easy way to tell the exact details of EEP augments
-Systems/planets/ships told you details simply by hovering of them? Or simply more than what they already do when clicking on them?

What if?
- Missions were a tad bit more in depth?
-Some (possibly rare) people, after seeing your excellent performance in simpler things, will give you intergalactic missions via your ship's AI
-If you do terrible, others might notice in the village(Which tends to be bad)
-Your escorts always carry simple weapons for at least minor protection(Such as a dagger or pistol) Or maybe they were simply immortal!
-People would tell you exactly how many steps are inside their questline

What if?
-You could get some nice personal protection?
-Rechargeable force-shields(like a mini force-field you wear) that take damage before you do?
-Awesome pet equipment! Yes, collars are nice, but what about an armored suit? Or cute little guns? Maybe the potential for natural regen (as long as they haven't 'died' yet) or thorns by adding special equipment.
-Crew is great and all, but a couple of meat-shield bodyguards(for a little bit of cash) would be a nice touch.
-It's not just you(and a couple rare baddies) that have battle pets! You crew members can have some too!
-You may start to get a bit overly full stomach, but why can't you eat a bit more food when you want some sweet buffs?
-Bacon somehow makes you gain superpowers!(Okay, maybe that one is a little off the mark)

What if?
-Settlements had better protection?
-Some of them bandits are REALLY well equipped, gotta watch out for those drop pods!
-That hunter may have killed one to many poptops, now the guards need to deal with an army at their gates!
-The game implies that NPCs respawn, so how about they come back to town after they die? Make some sense, they player can!
-Automated turrets! Guards can't watch the walls 24/7 you know(of course some planets have a different day/night cycle time but you know what I mean. I assume so anyway.)

What if?
-Speaking of settlements having turrets, why not you?
-Craftable, with better turrets made from better higher tier ingredients!
-Unique turrets(Maybe partially just for fun). There are plenty of strange and one-of-a-kind weapons out there, same thing goes for turrets! Finally your dream for a tentacle-shooting shotgun turret can finally come true!
-Attach your chosen gun and fire away at enemies, with the stand adding different bonuses depending on the type!
-Turrets aren't very useful when you intend to run around in dungeons or fight a boss(Because while it's fast and easy when you are setting them up to protect your base, it can be very distracting to set it up in a fight! Plus you don't wanna make these things OP)
-Assault stands! They may not be as good as a proper turret, but for the cost of being stationary (and some waiting time to help balance) you can deploy a little tripod type thing for a couple bonuses to your gun.

What if?
-Can't find that perfect weapon you have always wanted? Then mix and match!
-Most weapons (Other than unique probably) are be made of different parts, each affecting different attributes to the weapon (Whether damage type, DPs, or ability if it's a too hander). Just build the correct crafting station and you can mix and match till you get just what you want!
-Maybe unlimited changes you can do everywhere is a bit too easy, well there is a guy at the 2 stop tele-shop that wouldn't mind doing it for you(With a 'small' fee of course)
-This isn't quite as relevant, but I bet a couple people would like their powerful weapon to have a snazzy look, everybody loves a bit of decor! And that works for weapons too!

What if?
-This whole thing wasn't as long?

 

What if? Tl:dr

 

what if you looked at the mod section

 

What if, you never need to look at the mod section for this, it is already there.
What if, that was the whole point of this thing?
What if, you are a derp?

 

What if, you name your character Jeffrey