Do you think it would have replied to our confusion? If it hadn't been for the reloading bench bit, it would have been passable as a real human being, considering what is posted on steam discussion forums. Spam bots have always fascinated me... well, at least the interesting ones anyway. Do people set those up on the forums manually, or do the scripts just crawl the web looking for forums to post in?
Anyway, I think having a SHODAN esque uber-AI occasionally pop up, take over a (star)system, and turn the entire population (meaning the ships, not the NPC's themselves) of the system against you would make for a cool mod. Because you know. Flesh is weak.
That, or having ship computers act almost as VM's and expanding electronic warfare features, so one could "legit" hack into an enemy flagship and wreak havok. I'm tired of hacking "minigames". It would be nice to see something a bit more realistic, even if developing such a mod might not be the best of ideas and actually playing with said features might be a bit dry.