Moons are a decent way to make cash for little effort from what i understand, even without making the t2 stuff.
I have a feeling our best option (apart from w-space eventually) is to focus on cap-production. With access to the 0.0 minerals we should be able to increase and get into production of "real" capitals which could lead to us being more interesting for a alliance to allow us to become full members so to speak.
As I see it this is a good first step towards a non-determined goal