So I decided to go back through and read some older articles on the website and lo and behold I find something about orbital stations with separate components. As I read on I got a recollection of a certain new ship type I had fought in my recent scavenging travels with the .8a update, the Domain Survey Mothership. I really like what was said about potential because one, ideas can be volatile and always changing and trying to interpret a single idea at it's time of conception as a steady thing is impossible to do, and two: that ship definitely isn't an orbital station by any means but it did have the several disable-able parts and sections on it that were mentioned in the blog post. Anyways, just a neat thing I found during my time in the game and it was related to this thread. Cheers