Wait, first you must push the game to its limits.... Abuse its rules, desecrate its boundaries, and burn its foundations. You may or may not know the following:
Any mission ship can be captured if the mission the ship is involved with is aborted. This means that the Dreadnought can be flown, or kept as an escort. The Strange asteroid from the Miranu missions is a good one to fly, as well as the Nadir, Enhanced Arada, and more.
Get ResEdit. It is an exellent away to mess with the game. An example of something I generally do on EV:
Due to the supreme power of our lord, Rameretz, the description of this planet has been vanquished.
Many other such possibilities are fun. Changing the sprite of an escape pod to a dreadnought is always amusing, plus many other things. ResEdit can be found at the Add-ons page for EVO.
There are even more ways to abuse the game, but I will leave that to you to figure out.