A good reason to expand

I've been thinking of a damn good and fun reason to expand beyond the homebase.

So how about building stations that coordenate with mining fleets to allow
automatic mining without loading anything (but it will still use the fleet's current position,etc).

I could order a mining fleet to mine on a system (idk if it should be a manual or automatic selection of sectors), and when finished it will unload it's contents on the shop module of a defined station and repeat.

Then i could have a...

A good reason to expand