One more idea before I finally hit the sack for tonight: An ore smelter. Basically increases mineral production for a system. Not sure it'd work on a component so if anyone has tried this before please let me know.
Basically I'm looking to emulate anything space stations/bases/starbases have been pictured as being useful for. Zero-G research mostly comes to mind, as well as the other ideas I've posted.
As for SEV, thats over a year away to me and I hardly plan my gaming that far ahead
I'm just hoping a few small features are added to SEIV in the meantime even though I'm sure MM will be going full steam ahead with SEV
Anyways its time for some much needed sleep I think so I'll post some more ideas tommorow, hope to get some feedback even if its negative (more so actually).