stray blade
TSF has cargo and can get normal thrusters and gyros but not TSF thrusters and gyros. Ontop of that you can't get IFF console boards, ship console boards, or radar/mass scanner boards. Plus gunnery server or any guns at all without consuming an entire existing TSF ship. Add TSF thruster flatpacks and gyros to cargo or a machine to buy and give us boards so we can build ships like how TSFMC Engineer lore is supposed too. Also let us buy guns and gunnery servers even if it's just the low tier ones.
Ontop of that the experimental shipyard RCD is extremely mid. All normal non-reenforced walls, slow recharge of matter, no angled anything, and slow build times that make just building walls by hand somehow faster and with a better end product. On an TSFMC ship a normal wall is literally just decorative because any amount of explosion is breaching it.
It's not worth it to try and build a ship if it takes 45 minutes of salvaging for plasteel, an hour with the RCD to get a layout that isn't microscopic, buy an existing ship to strip the stuff you need off it including guns, and then wiring and atmo and the aesthetic parts. Literally just uparmor your thrusters and pack in extra walls into an existing TSFMC ship to make it harder to damage and you've spent 1/3 of the time for a product twice as good.
tall rover