Caravaning and trade

[Mux]

A16 was a huge update to this wonderful game, and i really like where this game is going, but i am certain that caravaning and trade are a bit dry at the moment.
Micro management is almost completely set up in this game, and due to mods its expandable to almost any extent. Why not add some more macro management to this game, that would make late game more interesting.

-being able to set up automated(except for combat) trade caravans that would take items to trade from the allowed pool, rest and replenish supplies on their own(not venture and die), they might know what other settlements need when they visit a settlement of this faction, bringing back money or goods from the desired list in exchange.
-Politics and diversified diplomacy, bribery, propaganda, regimes and other possible interactions of factions themselves(so if i capture a leader or some kind of officer of a faction, they immediately stop caring about him)
-Rimworld is a no mans land, but whats stopping a colony from proclaiming some part of the planet their own and writing their name on this piece of map? Settlements and factions are scattered randomly(how do ppl decide they belong to this faction or the other?), why not have some order in their location.
-Those escape pods keep just keep coming, and what of the home world? space ships come to trade, there must be something going on in the civilized world, whatever it is, it has absolutely no impact on this isolated planet, and why not?

Would love to see you using any suggestions in game, even partly.

Oh and 1 more thing, there absolutely must be a mod or something for mental break:surrender, not every 14 year old girl is a a fearsome centurion rushing into battle with 10 armed men with her bare hands. If running will get you massacred, it is only wise you get captured, but remain alive.

[Shub-Niggurath]

I really like the idea of a mental break: Surrender.
I always thought of the pirates as a bunch of kidnapped slaves forced to do the headmaster's bidding as they have no choice. Especially since one time I had
Emmie - Sex Slave
Attempt to beat me up, when her story en tales that she should be incredibly incapable of doing that.