Credit to: Magic Gonads

Do this:

first repair your ship the way the mod intends you to, and even if you want get the FTL drive working too (for balance cus otherwise this might mess with dialogue idk)

//because the quests are completely disabled, you can't do the "fix the ship" quest, meaning you can't progress. So youll need to use admin commands

/admin
/startquest '"human_mission1"'
/admin

then go to erchius and complete it. //Activate the drill and complete the quest


//additional stuff he added
make sure you have access to the outpost by now and have done Dr. Akkaggy's quest to get access to mech

the bounty poster will then be active when you next visit the outpost, activate it and start the quest

use navigation to go to where the peacekeeper is, deploy mech, and go to the marker.
cutsceen will play, then activate the bounty board and wait a bit, quest will advance and you will have access to the 1.4 content.