Hi. Ironclad made a great job of adding anomolies and random stuff in space that makes the game more realistic. But somethings that they reeeally need are ice clouds, mining clouds, and wormholes (i'm talking random ones that are like in a sci-fi show that can fit a spaceship but glow like a vortex).
Ice clouds can be in between wormholes or even have its own sector. I picture it dark and blue, with shards of ice randomly placed and occaisional lightning scattering around making an eerie kind of feeling. make low visibility so battles can be suprising and intense. And the best part: hyper research stations. 1 giant one you can either build or inhabit (ancient race builds it and abandons, maybe?). You can equip it with weapons or not, but it can give you technology only you can have. Kind of like artifacts, but has a super technology your race can aquire. Like Immense commerce trading boosts or a mega capitol ship.
Mining clouds. I only say cloud because its just shaped like one. Just a bunch of mining asteroids peppered into fragments of asteroids. It can be divided in 2 were half of the mining stations are to one faction while the other side is for another. Its very dense and has like 7 or 8 stations BUT have it very difficult to defend. No structures, only ships and a lot of wormholes leading to it.
Wormholes. You don't know were they take you. They pop up for a minute and disapear. All you know is that you can send ships into it. It spits you into some random sector and you fight to keep it or die trying. Hopefully it will last long enough for you to retreat but sometimes...
