its so much fun using them firsthand dont you think.
Ah, no, because A) I never have and B) they aren't meant to be used by the player.
are you two even talking about the same thing?
[REDACTED] refers to drone ships you fight during exploration, aka Derelicts and Remnants -- but that's a vanilla thing. SWP adds a couple new ones to those, but them not showing up in the codex is no different from the vanilla ships.
but SWP also adds lots of special IBB ships that have nothing to do with the drones, and that you can pilot yourself, assuming you manage to eliminate and recover them. those aren't shown in the codex either, because those ships are unique, not something that you can find flying around the sector outside of their exclusive bounty fleets. it also prevents spoilers for people who are new to this mod, and prefer seeing these ships for the first time during battle rather than during browsing through the codex.