A couple of words on balance-
- Avoiding Damage: Cloaking or Shields. Engines are decent against most attacks, but beams do not miss, and asking a player to rely purely on Engine/Pilot evade is... well, putting their fate in the hands of a RNG already known for its fickle and callous disregard for player wellbeing. It really should have either a Zoltan Shield or a Cloak to tip the scales towards long-term survivability. You've already decided on a no-shield design, which would make it roughly similar to a Stealth with boarding focus. Take notes on how the Stealth cruisers were balanced out: 4 Engines + Cloak 1 // 2 Engines + Cloak 2
Alternately, consider a Defense II drone, or a pair of D1's, to at least give the player some options for survivability. - Eight Crew? Seriously? Unless your intent is to make Baby's First God-Ship, starting crew should be 4, maximum. That's not because of the hanger UI, mind you, but because it gives the game a sense of actual progression. Building up the crew is as much a part of the game as killing the other ships and beating the boss - not to mention a significant portion of events that give you the potential for more crew. You're undercutting as much as 1/4th of the game's content, making it all but worthless to people who play this ship.
- Fire Bomb x4 / Weapons lvl 8. Your choice of weapon might not be significantly overpowered, but consider what those weapons actually do. Unlike the Red Tail's default Basic Laser x4, the fire-bombs bypass shielding entirely. Four of them as starting equipment is entirely ridiculous. And once again, giving the player Weapons 8 right from the word 'go' is throwing a healthy chunk of game progression to the wolves. Consider cutting your armaments and weapon level in half, and diversifying a bit.
- 3x Augment (Casing). In light of the ship's shieldless design, it makes a certain amount of sense, but the most any original ship starts out with is 2 augments - most only have one, some none at all. I can't call it overpowered in this context, but factoring in my earlier advice about using the stealth ships as an example for balance, it should probably be reworked, and reduced.
- Doors 3, Sensors 2, Teleporter 3, Oxygen 2, Medbay 3... Again, collectively this is wiping any sense of ship progression off the map. Give yourself 9 starting power - 10 if you're being generous - and distribute the points based on that. Any one of these might be reasonable, but as a package deal this just screams OP, even if your ship's offensive capabilities are somewhat nerfed by the choice in armaments and tactics.
I think there's a lot of potential for this to be a good design, but the ship you've put forward here is just kind of a mess. Overpowered in some respects, target-practice in others. The first ship is usually the hardest and I'll give you credit for not making it a complete murderous wreck, but you still need to give it a good hard look and consider what its focus is, how you
think it should be played, but more importantly how the people using the mod are likely to build - then give them the room to progress.
Footnote: I hereby dub this ship the "SS Crematoria." Because let's face it, you're teleporting your own crew into an oven.
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One reason I didn't add cloaking is because of the black rectangle around the ship, it completely blacks out the ship and I don't know how to fix that.