I would love to have additional features that allow my bases to look less like lifeless models and more like places that have their own life. If you haven’t done so, I would encourage you to post your suggestions to the official Question of the Week thread:
Moving on to something else:
Have you ever been to Flotsam? There are merchants there who sell fighter thralls
Of course, those behave like normal thralls. I like your idea to add a new kind that becomes hostile.