[Suicide Junkie]

Long Range Scanners and System Scanners have range increase with level.
Weapon Hardpoints depend only on the hull... Most alien ships already have wierd firing arc patterns. You can mod them to arbitrary count and angles using the spaceobjectXfiles.txt

Simply adding more weapon slots to an existing weapon firing point is even easier. You can do that graphically with a copy-paste, a click-drag, and a rename using my slotmodder.