Living galaxy

I think the game feels a little dead and a bit clinical. This could be simply solved with the addition of some visual effects here are some idea I had: 

• City lights on the night side of colonized planets, this could be link to population higher the population the bigger the cities.
• Station in orbit of planets which ships fly to and from, the number of stations could be based on system level. More advance system is, the more orbital traffic and stations.
• Freighters flying along trade routes, so each ship you buy is a physical freighter flying along the route. 
• "space lanes" of misc ships flying inter-system between different colonized planets.  

dunno if this is planed or already be suggested, but I enjoy zooming in to see the impressive graphics of the planets and system, these can only add more life to the game adding to the appearance of a space-faring empire.