A way in wich they can reproduce without the help of humans and that does not require womb components either.
Regardless how the genes for the new ship come into being and how many parents are involved as long as it is at least one, one or more of the parents build a cocoon, and after a certain time, the original ships, plus additional children come out.
The children could even come out fully adult, with their personality a clone of one parent or a mixture of the parents personalities. Or they come out as ordinary children.
Assuming the ships search their food themself in some astereoid belts or similiar you can get away with a lot of unecconomic designs. They might have been built as military ships originally, but they multiply themselfs and hirering some of them for civilian jobs, that don't require their armaments might still be more ecconomical, then building ships, that fit that purpose.
There might even be bioship trade unions, that put preassure on humans, to outlaw mechanical ships, to keep their jobs secure and well paid.
I also think it is weired that most of my ideas for bioships take inspirations from insects. Maybe Lexx was onto something.
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