Away team mod?

[Solice]

I really haven't looked into the MOD documentation in a detailed way yet, but has anyone considered making a sort of "away team" type mod?

As I play the standard game, one of the things that I feel seem under-utilized are the planets. I know you do find artifacts, creatures, etc. upon arriving at planets, but there's no real reason to read the planet descriptions... not really.

It might be interesting to have a mod which gave your ship an "away team" quest item or something. When you went to certain types of planets, you could choose to "search further"... ie. send an away team down to search the planet (if it was of a hospitible kind) and try to find further items.

Depending on the planet, you could lose your "away team" (to hostiles or to random events). You could maybe go back to your home planet to get a new away team or something... not sure.

Anyone have mod experience enough to comment if something like this is possible?