I'm planning on giving my PCs a starship early in their adventure, as a part of the Dead Suns adventure.
I'd also like to use it as adventure hooks: for example if they have a starship they'll have to make sure it's properly maintained (the drift engines will need to be overhauled periodically and they'll need to buy fuel and edibles). This should help add adventure hooks as they'll need to make sure they find parts/places to get the repairs done, and also money to pay for that. So it'll help give them stuff to spend the money on that's not super high end gear.
Does anyone have advice for how to handle maintenance of a starship without it getting too crunchy or tedious for me or the players? In Star Wars RPG there was a chart of how much it costs to rent a berth on various planets, and that helped (all maintenance was folded into that cost).