I'm sure many people saw Cable age mod in the workshop?
I personally love the mod, however I'm fully aware how truly overpowered unbalanced it is, so how about we introduce either hallways or/and armor blocks with integrated cables, but as a counter balance caveat, any EMP Missile or Disruptor that hits ship where any cable is in range, makes that EMP blast GO through the cable either fully or some extra distance and zap/spark to any reactor and/or factory building, temporarily disabling them for short while with a % of starting fires.
It would both give players vanilla equivalent of cables, while also having balance, as you wouldn't be able to just spam them. Maybe make those cable integrated armor/hallway blocks expensive as well as blueprint unlock costly as to make them late game?
Just to add, any shields powered by cables, when hit by disruptors/EMP misiles could be temporarily disabled as well, to counter balance?