Add telescience blocks on the mining Z-level

[BaneOfGiygas]

typically just end up getting a bunch of cats when you do

Due to the way it's randomized you have a pretty hefty chance of getting a Voltron.

Huh. I must be pretty unlucky, then, because I can count the number of Voltrons I've ever gotten from abandoned crates on one hand.

I also agree on the drones, or would at the very least prefer that they not be all over the place, primarily because the amount of available pod weaponry (you've got phasers, drills, and lasers if there's armory access, which are fairly scarce and the former two aren't really stellar weapons against things like HKs) isn't very conducive to exploring space, which means you'll usually be running away from drones more frequently than fighting them. I also agree on the front of making the mining station public access, since as misto said, no one's using it for anything official anyways, and it's not like there's anything there that people without mining access shouldn't have.

I agree with the bulk of Noah's suggestions, and there's definitely a lot of tiny and interesting locales that have just about zip, nada, and zilch in the way of interesting loot. Maybe put some royal jelly or cubic bee eggs on the bee station, throw in a small Syndicate item of some ilk (a stealth storage, a microbomb implant, something) on the Z-Drone, put more cool stuff in fermid hell aside from an easter egg and a few assorted mining tools, populate those gigantic and empty asteroids with some mineral veins or some other cool pieces of loot, and mix up the contents of abandoned crates so the available good stuff isn't so limited.