NOTE: I made this on a game that includes the altered sprites from the Miranda Class (In the thread called 'Help with Importing ships'), I am not sure if it works without those altered sprite files.

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Open 'edit_npc_page1' (C:\Program Files\Activision\Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations 3.0\Data\odf\system) and add at the bottom:

itemX = "pf_kickstart.odf"

Replacing X with the number 1 higher than the ship before it.