I know that this game seems not being worked on but I see modding potential in the text files.
The text files themselves can be edited to make custom ships, sprites could be made but I haven't tried to edit them.
This was like... 1 Year ago when I actually messed with the text files.

I think the game could have been underrated if someone already told of us before hand about the modding support.
I guess there is no turning back now.