Bug Or Not?

[Yrame IV, a true I of the dragon]

In station mode, the exodus fleet mining bases seem to be designed to be used while there then abandoned. While there is a cargo port there, there are no hull blocks on the base so you can't build a cargo shuttle to take most of the supplies back... or so it seems.

But you an however take back some supplies, as many as you can fit in however many shuttles you take.

This seems like the intended case for the bases.

However, if you manually load two hull blocks into one of your shuttles before setting off on your mission, you should be able build a cargo shuttle and steal most or even all of the supplies the fleet gives you for the mission. Is this intended behaviour, or is it oversight?

EDIT: I have done another mission since then which has hull blocks at the station, indicating that either things have changed recently or different bases have different supplies.