I assume not, bones aren't very hard compared to metal, and it would be pretty hard to make a ship of bones airtight. So are they just made of metal that's colored and shaped to look like bone?
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Yeah, Corpsefleet ships are largely not air tight, to make it annoying to anything alive. Remember, the Corpsefleet loves hating the living.
But yeah, I think of the Corpsefleet as the most extra of extra. They would totally dig up ancient bones of giant creatures and reinforce them with magic and technology to make them as strong as other materials used in starship construction.
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One of the limits on bioengineering is keeping what you make alive long enough to be useful. Necrobioengineering, designing something to make a useful corpse, is a little easier.
Additionally, there are creatures big enough and tough enough to use starship combat rules.
Plus, Corpsefleet ships probably have a very small area they actually care about during a fight. Hull breaches don't matter, and the reactor can leak all it wants as long as it doesn't explode or shut down.
Finally, there's magical enhancement. Starfinder's magic isn't very specific, but if anyone has automated rituals to imbue bones with the strength of starmetals, it's Eox.
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"Atmosphere is an unnecessary inconvenience for most elebrians, and thus many Eoxian ships are open to the void in places, their hulls shaped like the rib cages of great beasts. (In some cases, this is actual truth, with walls or ornaments built from the bones of some of the largest creatures to wander the planes, but more often these frames are made of hardened ceramic or nanocarbon.)"
CRB, p. 306
"Atmosphere is an unnecessary inconvenience for most elebrians, and thus many Eoxian ships are open to the void in places, their hulls shaped like the rib cages of great beasts. (In some cases, this is actual truth, with walls or ornaments built from the bones of some of the largest creatures to wander the planes, but more often these frames are made of hardened ceramic or nanocarbon.)"
CRB, p. 306
Good find. So the answer is, yes some are made from creatures, and yes some are made to look like creatures.
I assume not, bones aren't very hard compared to metal, and it would be pretty hard to make a ship of bones airtight. So are they just made of metal that's colored and shaped to look like bone?
A lot of the "bone" is grown biosynethetics although they do use giant space critter carcasses as well. Their ships are also made for the undead many have no aired compartments or only enough for "guests". They run their power plants hot and don't care much about radiation leakage or pollution the crew is past caring about such things as air or radiation.
I assume not, bones aren't very hard compared to metal, and it would be pretty hard to make a ship of bones airtight. So are they just made of metal that's colored and shaped to look like bone?
I mean Drow ships are made out of Vermaliths.
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I would imagine there are also necromantic techniques that let you take small bones and refashion them into big bones. Don't have a supply of Giant Ship Sized Corpses for your naval engineering project? You can make your own, all you need are a sufficiently large number of Normal Humanoid Size Corpses, and a willingness to kill people by the thousands, or millions, to harvest their bodies for materials.
Now we know why the corpsefleet hates all the living. They're wasting their bones in meatbags instead of using them as spaceships.
Now I hate the living too!