Someone in the official FTL forums has discovered how to unpack some of the game's .dat files at an attempt to mod the game.

Anyways, here's the relevant thread:

http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1920

Think we'll get some good mods out of this?

Perhaps. Defintely potential to add new events, weapons, races and such.

Thanks for this, mate!

I'll probably have to cough up the $5 for the official soundtrack just out of principle, but this at least covers my complaining soundly. ;-)

I'm surprised it took this long, seeing as how popular this game is.

Sounds good. Other than the ship management Im finding this game fairly primitive/lacking content.

I also like the sound of that.
I like this game, its just a bit short.