Away Missions and Base Combat

[TheStorm]

I've noticed that the main threat right now is currently rouge bots and random 3-4 pirate raids. This doesn't really give a good reason for station to ship combat, making the weapons research useless. I think increasing the threat of these would help with that by having larger pirate raids containing ships. What might be a cool idea is that the main pirate base is undetectable until you get a scanner, and have intermediate missions being to take out pirate ships and what not.