Currently I have some design already ready but the gameplay has not yet been integrated as for example a spaceship carrier for which the docking is missing and the same for a Titan Class which should be able to carry corvettes. But I will try to fill the category you are talking about in a short time.

I would love something between this and the miner price wise. Say something like a small escort ship able to do the lvl 1 to 2 missions. You have a great set of ships just a few places with spots that i think need to be filled in. I would love a whole line up from 60kish starter to carrier ships lol. Also what would you see as a small wing as ship wise?

btw, on my build I dropped the shield gen down lower/close to the reactor and added an additional shield gen beside it. I also dropped the bottom portion of the ship down a few blocks so I could add more storage for missiles.

lolz - nvm. I'm an idiot :)
after clicking on the single ship on the left I was wanting to click load ship at that point. I didn't realize 'til a few mins ago that I still needed to click the actual ship on the right to select it. I was able to load it after that. my bad.

yes to career mode and even if I didn't have the resources, I was in blueprint mode and the blueprint would have applied and asked me to "Make it so" to apply the changes.

It's weird, I tried it and I don't have any problems, if you were in career mode you had enough resources for the ship?

I tried to load some of these ships into the game, but the load ship button is grayed out for every ship in the collection.