I've done the Force as a tech mod. Has a few minor bugs in it still... but it's avaliable. Let me know when you get the game and I can send it to you.
As for shipsets, check out Andres Lescano's site
http://se4kdy.cyberwars.com/
He's got all sorts of Star Wars shipsets available. In fact, my standard shipset was created by him (thanks again Andres). He was also working on a COMPLETE Star Wars mod, but I belive that work has now gone into the Ultimate Sci-Fi mod, which is still in development IIRC.