[Where to start?]

Is there any written starters guide to Avorion modding?

[Some Suggestions for expanded Features]

You can assign a captain to your secondary ships and tell them to follow you if you dont jump farther than they can they will jump with you

[The Trouble With Guns]

Im not sure about every detail but your aesthetics problem is easy

 

Start by making your own mega lazers with magnified damage and range

 

Then place them in a ring inside the outer limit of the "eye" to hide them

About 16 so placed lazers would create the effect you want

 

It will be a single melting shot from 7km that absolutely nothing except stations and super ships will survive for more than a second

 

[Wounded Crew and Ship Doctors]

This looks like a good start on bio weapons

 

 

If crew have health that can be lowered or hightened then it can be directly affected by outside means

 

If all crew dies without total ship destruction it can become a ship relic that can then be taken over and assigned new crew to