A good article and and agree with it whole heartedly, but as I posted in the comments for it. There is so much that one could do on a station in non contested space that it would be dizzying, "if" those options were to be made available by cryptic.
Murder or assault investigations, ship inspections for smugglers, ship overhauls and upgrades to visiting ships, diplomatic problems, the danger of Ion storms to a station, prioritizing who gets docking space and access to a stations repair facilities. It really is quite an endless set of possibilities. Perhaps a sick paaenger arrives and turns out they carry some sort of plague known or unknown.
