I do have plans for it, but need to get it built first...
I made no hull progress last weekend either. I finished my frame miner and built an AE storage system- replacing all the barrels and reducing lag around the ship a little bit. I also had to tweak my item processing to handle the increased amount of stuff flowing in from the frames vs the old quarry I had been using. When I move all the machines to their final place on the ship, I'll definitely be using AE a lot more and things should work a LOT better.
Unfortunately I have to send my laptop back to HP to get the fan fixed and will be unable to work on anything for 7-11 days
I doubt my old laptop can handle FTB at all, it lagged hard on vanilla which is why I replaced it. That's assuming I can even get it started.