I’m in the process of Hp’ing the Starlancer ships for small mod to play around in, so i reckon I could hardpoint your ships fairly easily.
Do you have a list of what ships you need? are they in CMP format? as my experience here is limited to adding/editing HardCMP compatable files.

CK256

I remember some people talked about NPC spawn in MP few years before, but no any result i my memory.

“Drone Fighters”, you can try the AI wing mod by fox, that closest to your request.