The room also could be
- a greenhouse
- a room for charging (batteries, power cells, etc...)
- an extra storage room
- an observation room (the walls would not be glass, but screens which show the outside so it looks like the…
I would not remove the scanner room from the game because it is a great thing to build and a nice room for your base but maybe the scanner room in the cyclops could have a smaller range and only one camera drone