Finished up the tutorial and I'm sold, designing your own everything is cool. It's got some interesting systems in place that reward standardisation, modularity, re-using parts in different ships and even standard hulls from which minor changes are made have benefits.
Also:
Also:
Terraformers can even be used as weapons. If you found a planet where you wanted to loot the industry but you didn't want to bombard or invade, you could slowly extract the oxygen from the atmosphere.