At the end of the day the ship building is going to essentially be the same as building the colony, with some new parts and mechanics with how the different pieces interact. You will probably want to build alot of the things that are in your colony on your ship, like beds, tables, food source, etc... The emphasis is going to be on making everything as compressed as possible, but fully functional so it will support the crew members without relying on things outside the ship, to that end I am going to make a new power source just for the ship that is small but uses fuel, and give you a way to generate that fuel.
Thanks Evul! I loving hearing the support, It's been a while since I tried to do any modding, or programming for that matter. I've actually enjoyed doing the texture work alot.
I am really excited to get to sit down and do some work on this, my days are kind of crazy though, I work full time and my wife and I run a home business, video game retail, and my youngest son is about 2 and a half. So I don't get alot of free time. First chance I get I'm going to setup a framework so I can make a .DLL, then I can fool with the coding some while I'm at work.
EDIT: Updated the OP