I have my own pack that has immersive engineering/oritech as other tech stages and spore fungal infection as constant pressure to industrialize against. Aeronautics adding the possibility of a mobile base safe from the infection fits the premise well, moving from area to area to avoid the infection while docking temporarily to pick up ore/crude oil and eventually creating a combat vehicle to reclaim an infected area is also a really compelling application of the mod.

I think your idea of an automated logistics network of ships would be suited really well to a sky islands world. I can bet that someone is already working on a pack like that.

So far I am just slowly chipping away at creating my own designs for vehicles and robots while figuring out the functionality. And let em tell you, when I designed my first working robot arm joints I couldn't believe what I saw, every second I play with this mod I am utterly bewildered that there were people who spent 4 years coding this for free.