It would be really cool if there was like an add-on mod that introduced a new trader type that solely sold these ships. They can already be minified by uninstalling, so that version could be sold by a new trader as an alternate way to acquire the ships, which is especially useful if you don't want to use your resources (super limited or hoarding) or are doing a no build/craft run (like I often do) in which making ships isn't meant to be an option. The only trick would be to figure balancing, which is why I would propose that the market value of the ships be the cost of all the resources to make it * 3 or * 5.

For instance the superpod ship costs 550 steel, 50 plasteel, 45 gold, 150 silver, and 12 components to build. According to the market value of the resources, this would make it cost ~2,479 silver normally. * 3 it becomes 7,437 silver and * 5 = 12,395‬

Now imagine the cost of the genesis, which already costs 12.5k silver as a building component. The idea being that it's a possible way to acquire ships but ultimately at a greater cost. A good negotiator may be able essentially get a discount, but it'll still cost significantly more value to buy than to create.

It's not nearly as immersive watching a ship fall in a drop pod or plop out of some wandering traders ass, but without extra coding to make it more realistic, it's a viable way to do it.

And I would gladly do all the calculations for ship costs at whatever modifier *3, *5, *? desired in order to make it as easy as possible. Anyway, thanks for coming to my rambling TED talk.