how about a mission that requires ship bots and spawns a new NPC?

Engineered Battle Drone
Rank 300 Elite Ship
Attack: 1,500
Defense: 2,000
Top 5 damagers are guaranteed a drop
drops: A special new attack module, a special new defense mod, a scan mod, a cloak mod, a hull mod, a shield mod, or an energy mod

Look, the idea that some people will be negatively effected by the creation of an artifact that they are too powerful to have a use for is ridiculous. If that were a valid argument, the MSP would never have been created. Sure, there should probably be some CT lab use for Ship-bots, but so what? Just put a CTP scrap value on the Mass-Deck-Pod and be done with it. It's not a negative for something to be useless, just something you have to get rid of. the fact of the matter is that a MDP would benefit the majority of GL players. That makes it a valid suggestion.

Was MSP ADDED or was it in the game from the start?
It was there for as long as I played but I didnt start at the very beginning so~

I've been playing for over two years and while I can't state deffinatively that it wasn't there from the beginning, I'm pretty sure it was added around the time Aidonium was.