Starlifter is not vanilla, but Atlas mk 2 is. Could you search Starsector/starsector-core/data/world/factions/pirates.json for any mentions of "atlas" or "atlas2"?
I undestand that Starlifter is not vanilla, but i do not see it like atlas.
That is what i found about atlas in pirates.json
# ships the faction gets access to when importing S&W out-of-faction
"shipsWhenImporting":{
"tags":["base_bp", "pirate_bp", "pirates"],
"hulls":[
"falcon_p",
"atlas2",
],
},
"knownShips":{
"tags":["base_bp", "pirate_bp", "pirates"],
"hulls":[
"falcon_p",
"atlas2",
Also i want to add that in vanilla we can see atlas2 averywhere, but whith mods it is replased by other ships, for example Infernus i think.
Because of it, i think, Starlifter also can be rapleced, isnt it? (i have Starlifter in ingame list of ships, or how does it called)