hei, i really love the mod, really like some VN eroge stuff in SS. i want to give an ideas for the future content update. i think you should add more storyline between the player and Ava, so after you found her, recover her ship and joined you, after sometime in-game time like 2-6 months have passed, it need to trigger a dialog with her to make a bonding between her and the player, increase the relationship and intimacy. i think its a great idea, and plus after defeating many fleets she will starts a dialog with us again, and so on and on and on, until many times and many cycles has passed your relationship with Ava are getting closer until it reached at least cooperative, uh no i have an idea, i think you need to have a higher tier than cooperative like "intimate" or "romantic" regardless of gender the player is whether youre male or female, and make it higher than 100 points of relation like 150 or 200 ( i think thats too high, but you get the gist). plus in those storyline you need to add a story mission like unknown fleet chasing us or unknown vessel or fleet not identified in any domain database and surprise its another nightmare or the antagonist faction from sunrider, and maybe some story mission involving sunrider upgrades and those mechs.
Last but not least, you dont need to bring those sunrider characters like the MC (kayato shields, Claude, and any other heroines) just you Ava, and our officers, yeah you heard me, our officers, if you have at least 7 officer (player included 1 is you, and other 6 is your officer) at some point in the game, you guys will make a bond with each other, getting to know them etc, like in the franchise. And just in case if i forgot, a romance between a player and Ava is gonna be great, add some cuteness, and romantic scenes (you can add some raunchy stuff in the dialogue like an adult novel storytelling does, hell if you want to go bold and go big balls move and being a chad, add some "ecchi" scenes XD), yeah basically like that, if your character is a male character, its going to be a normal, ecchi and kinda lewd cute romance, BUT if your character is a female, youre gonna get a girl on girl, yuri romance, and yes ecchi and lewd too (i think theres gotta be a limit somehow, dont want ppl in discord community going craazy bcs of this, i dont want some other bad drama TvT )
i think thats all for now, remember this is all just an ideas and suggestion, the choice is yours to make, your mod i gonna be amazing if you keep continuing it. Damn almost forgot, you need to add her in the player contact list in-game, so players will always see her, our relationships, and many other things in there, and maybe some request from her