So I came up with an idea while playing. It would be cool for there to be a mining ship, with the logic that the mech can mine, so why wouldn't a shuttlecraft.
I think it would be best to have a ship that mines, so there can be droids that collect and bring you stuff, and make it so it have have a drill at first, and only this ship can hold the drill, but than later upgrade to something like the mech's mining lazer. Though the drill would still be great.

Also another though I had was to make it so the shuttlecraft can pick up energy while attacking enemy ships, cause I found that if you get swarmed, you die pretty easily. Though this would more or less be a suggestion to the mod that lets you deploy.