This might be impossible, but to me it sounds like fun and payback
The idea is, what if you were allied with a faction, and you could send a caravan to explore their base, without attacking it. So you could eat all their food and have mental breaks and burn down their base.
I second this.
I'm not so much interested in eating all their food and burning down their bases, though (as fun as that sounds!) Personally, I would like to be able to meet, and potentially find ways to recruit, others. I am playing with the Star Wars mods and would like to make my own Jedi Temple kind of scenario, with the ability to go explore other towns and cities looking for Force Sensitive characters with an eye towards training them.