idk too much about your game, but if you can design your ship, i might say to add shield parts, mini turrets, boosters, i saw a game that had connecters that connect parts of the ship for holding it together, like:
_/ \_
/ () \
0-0-0
¦–¤¤–¦
\⇔⇔/
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