Both your topic title and your explanation made me confused...
What exactly do you want? Make a mod with all the old sprites you can find?
Basically, just needed to see if anyone was willing to test out the mod (if I go on with it) and report in the ships balancing. The said mod will just be a test to see how modding in Starsector will be and go on and make an original faction mod.
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And yes, I realized that I put this in the wrong thread... Oops.