I would like to suggest adding space resource deeds to the game through the daily login tokens or trader tokens vendor. Have them grant say 5k of a chosen asteroid resource for 15 daily login tokens or 25 trader tokens?
I think these should be in a trader vendor for trader tokens instead, because, well, we have trader vendor and the most frequent users for this kind items will be traders. I like this idea too, some traders want to make heavy variant ships to begin their piloting more comfy to start space mining later on, without the need to do piloting first and questing to get mining equipment.