Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-5080468-20170729213650/@comment-47205-20170730161207

I see nothing wrong with your ideas.

For the ships' appearance, there is no realistic way to depict a transwarp drive. We've never gone into the specific details of their operation, and given that the physics in question is entirely fictional, there's no reason to even think that we could justify any absolute statements that we made if we did. Telling people that their ships have to look a certain way would be nothing better than making an arbitrary restriction on people's creative use of the Spore editors.

So, FTL drives of all kinds can presumably be internal, and need have no effect on the outwards appearance. If people do want them to have any visual impact, they use whatever they like, nacelles or otherwise.