note:this wont affect anything but how your ship looks.
ok say you just started the game and you just chosen your race say Vygoid. now you have proffessions now, i think each profession should have a different ship pic for each proffession. for example.
Vygoid builder ship could be (cant find Vygoid look alikes and these are not the planned ships just trying to get point across)
Raider so fast hitting ship look:

Builder so looks massive or tall due to more decks

Biologist so scientist ship look:

Hacker so the hacking look:

so each proffesion will look likethe race you are assigned to but look bit different pending on your profession
i know this will take a lot of work for dan but so are the other ideas as well and face it doing this will problyearn him a break for awhile