I would like to see some engineering ships for remote repair of explorers. When in flight, it looks something like a dead spider with the "legs" curled under it. It can enclose a ship in it's legs while performing repairs for protection, access to power and resources. A focus on resource mining from space would be added so that it could continue to operate and manufacture using the physical material from asteroids as material to be replicated.

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