This is awesome! I can't put it down!
If you were to slow it down a lot and change the graphics for spaceships, you could easily make an awesome 2D topdown Expanse sim game!
The idea actually stemmed from thinking about how the genre of 2d topdown space games would work if they were *not* in space! I've been thinking about this game more recently... still would like to revisit it at some point. Maybe trying to bring some metagame elements from Sid Meier's Pirates! into the mix... Could be interesting but could see it ballooning into a pretty big project ;)