Y'know I hate to bring this up again but can there be an edition without the random Power Drain events? Just in case someone wants to run a ship like the Potential or any other cheat ship with 60 units of power?
I can get by avoiding Ion Storms (and nebulae since there's a chance that of course combat breaks down and a storm appears. Again BS but avoidable by not going into the clouds) and using combat augments and refrain from buying a Battery but one thing that can crash the game is when you get a random event that takes away 3 bars of power because of reactor failure or whatever.
Everything else is avoidable through common-sense and anyone running a Potential-like ship should know to avoid such things, I don't think that event is avoidable. It'll pop up at random and crash your game like it was the Purple Man (YOU CAN'T).
I don't know if replaying the fight after recovering from the crash would mean it pops up again or if it "rerolls" the beacon and now you're facing an Automated Cruiser in a solar flare armed with a Kitchen Sink Module (as in, it has a Battery, Hacking, Mind Control, several bazillion guns and drones.)
Some might say "Just remove the event from the list yourself or don't run a cheat ship with CE" but I'm thinking about those who are not expert modders who happened to try the Potential or something.
Or are just too lazy to have to remove it every time CE updates
EDIT: Also, I find it hilarious when you face an automated ship in an asteroid field and immediately the ship begins to run... into an asteroid field. It's like "Go after them" but we're already in the danger zone. At least it's not like the Asteroid Solar Flare though.