Sorry second message for today.
Actually I was thinking about the artefacts. Now that we have installable components on ships, why don't we introduce artefacts that ARE ship components. Some OP engine, armour or cannon/planet stripper/teleportation device/stasis shield/unstoppable phase missile/indoctrination device (just shooting ideas). Of course upon the destruction of the ship it may be recoverable. Also an increase in components in general would be great since many of them are not very useful (or at least I can't find good use for them over the regular 7-8 components which are the best ones)
I know some extremely powerful ancient weapon on a titan could shift the balance a lot, but all the artefacts do that anyway, and on global scale. And how cool would be to find some ancient tech you could actively use.