As far as research and copying is concerned, we/I can always install a small tower in one of the moons, park 3 labs and some guns and presto, we have our own labs.
9 ME, 9 PE and 3 copy slots.
Carting fuel can be done once a month with a single carrier jump.
Remember that the bpos do not need to be in the labs, research can be done remotely, in the event that the tower is destroyed we would not lose any bpos.
Оnly bpcs (copiеd from bpos in the station) will stay in the labs‚ they can be harveѕtеd as they come out of the queque.
The tower could also draw hostiles in our own system so we could have many battles on our own door steps
Just an idea.
vamm.