I wonder if some artifact could be designed that could be purchased with red badges besides the Dominion Cannons. Currently there are items that can be purchased for Yellow, Green and Blue badges that are repeated useful and thus make gaining them forever a worthwhile act, while gaining more than 160 Reds is useless.

It could be either a planet artifact that does attack or defense, or some sort of temporary attack buff, but one that cannot be scrubbed with a CM, or something else that people might actually want, and want often. I have noticed a drop-off in badge attacks which I am attributing to a lack of reward for doing so.