Howdy,

I was just looking through some the posts and noticed this one. Yes, there a lot of good starting mods available.

Here on TSP in the downloads go to the “T” section and go to page 18.

There are 4 trentstartingships mods which will allow you to start with freighter, light fighter, heavy fighters and very heavy fighter. All are designed for the vanilla version.

There are also a lot of good tutorials around. Making your own starting ship is not difficult, though when a beginner, it can be tedious. Biggest worry is the cinematic view, which is the equipment room and the launch cut scene where you meet King.

The info I have for that was, I believe from a post. Here is the title;
Changing the Cinematic Ships by Blaster @ SWAT Portal

If need be I can post it. It is only 9K in my text file.

Pascal05