I'm not finished with animating the engine parts and that's why there are no engines atm. Partly BGE ships will use standard engine stuff with some fancy colour and partly animated fins/tentacles/wings.
That stuff is one of my least concerns atm.
Probably the best thing to do right now would be to write custom AI shizz, link it somehow only to BGE ships and be happy that those little buggers come in nice and close to give every other ship a strong hug.
But that stuff is beyond my abilities tbh, I'm not even able to write my life leech onhit effect.
So, either someone with really good coding skills shows up and is going to help me with this mod or I will do cosmetic stuff forever.
In other words: I'm gonna need some help with this, please!