I would suggest additional missions that are available from at least one station in every system.

Example mission 1:
Mission: Find Hive Queen

Description: We believe the hive 'bots at sectors G7, G8, H3, H4 and I3 are originating from a hive queen in the area. Find the queen, and report her location back to us.

Summary: This mission might only be available to those that had killed more than XXX number of hive 'bots. Perhaps credit toward Hive Tracker Badge? http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/14800

Example mission 2:
Mission: Kill Queen

Description: Destroy the Hive Queen that has been discovered in sector G1. The Queen is disrupting our mining operations in sectors G7, G8, H3, H4 and I3.

Summary: This mission would only be available after the previous mission had been done, by this or another player. It might only be available to those with a certain level of hive kills badge. Kills would naturally count toward the Ace Queen Hunter Badge http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/14800

The Sedina-style Hive[1] will be replacing all Hive bots everywhere soon. It even kinda works on zarniwoop[2]. So I think we should wait for that to happen before making Hive suggestions.

1: http://design.vendetta-online.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hive
2: Log in by prepending "test:" to your login username.