Put a portable Recharger camp, with a bioreactor or a nuc in the kit, in another cabinet - build it when you need it. Put a portable Scanner Room camp in a cabinet - build it when you need it. It can be fitted out with a farm, a bed, a fabricator, a mod station, a thermal reactor, an energy efficiency module, and enough storage (several thousand units) that you never have to return to.anywhere. They ignore it, and they ignore you in it. It is complete protection from Warpers. With care and timing, you can use it to slip by every dangerous point in the game, even without Silent Running and the Shield Generator. With the engine off, it is invisible to all creatures (except, perhaps, in a limited way, crabsquids). It is immensely useful, possibly the single most important piece of equipment in the game. Those same people probably run the thing on flank speed (the middle one) all the time and burn down their Power Cells unnecessarily.
Only people who talk about how useless the Cyclops is are the impatient types who want to 'beat' the game as quickly as possible.
