I would want to make a sort of habitation/breeding station using my ship as the centerpiece in the likes of Metroid Fusion's B.S.L. Research Station orbiting SR388 (aka- the ex-metroid capital riddled with Parasite-X). Of course, my version would be a mobile biological research station that keeps growing the more worlds I visit, each with it's own porta-biome attached to it. If possible, allowing for cross-breeding if ever integrated into the game.
For reference:
http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Biologic_Space_Laboratories_research_stationOther things I would try out would be to have a collection of killer rabbits defending my home, and see if I can reproduce them at the rate of Tribbles. Send a few after nigh-unkillable colossal creatures, and if gravity guns exist, see if I can reenact the 'Bronze Colossus Killed by Fluffy Wambler' Incident.
NOTE:
I attempted something similar in Terraria, but Starbound would make more sense, and be a bit simpler a process, and would actually be more worth the effort.
ADDENDUM:
I will collect fleshy terrain from all kinds of worlds, and live inside a eldritch abomination of my own design. Complete with all kinds of plumbing. Alternatively, I'll do the same but what we've been doing IRL all these years, and do the same with floral terrain instead of fauna terrain. Not as exciting or as metal as building with bone and flesh, and blood plumbing and such, but hey, technically, it's still the same exact thing; just with a different set of base species of terrain.
Let that set in for a moment.
Oh yeah, and that can also contribute as biome-pod for my ship in the prior as well.
Source: Alien Storm (Genesis) Final Level
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My SteamID is in the little globe below my avatar, in case I win.
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One last thing...
I call the process of converting my ship to flesh:
going from
Metal to
\m/_Metal_\m/