I think that every Badge color should have at least three types of artifacts that they could be redeemed for. Blues strike me as being the only worthwhile Badge to have after one has maxed out their ship upgrade and planetary building items. Most Badges have planetary buildings already so Red is the only one that needs one. Yellow and Green should both have ship upgrades and Red, Yellow, and Green should all have use items. This would make Badges more useful to high ranking players who may be sitting on dozens of useless badges. It would give more reason to get badges later in the game. There have been hundreds of suggestions for new items, etc. so I leave it to the discretion of others to pick them out but I do believe that they should exist.

Yes it could use a few more artifacts. It would be nice if dan would also take some of the ideas that seem good and placing them on the market. Still I have an idea for a raiding one:

Ship Armory: +5% crew when raiding another ship. (As you are arming your crew for the raid.)

red badges redeem 10 red badges for a tactical officer