Edit: Okay, not such a great idea. The heat is killing meeeee! Brain = gone.
I am not a dev, but wouldn't this be a really easy solution to do THIS:
Step 1: Rename old "Battleship Scanner" to "Universal Moneysink Scanner"
Step 2: Reduce the stats of the Ex-Battleship-Scanner and have it as the "Universal Moneysink Scanner".
Step 3: Adjust the infocard of the BS scanner to fit the "not BS scanner any more" scanner.
Advantage: no one will run into compatibility issues. No one Needs Con Transfers for ships. No one is forced to do unnecessary oorp Actions that no one wants to do anyway and who serve no one, plus only create a mess for everybody involved.
Step 4: Take one of the unused silly stat Scanners like the restart one.
Step 5: Rename it to "New Battleship Scanner" (the real new one)
Step 6: Buff the silly stats of "unused silly old scanner" to "real New BS-Scanner"
=> avoided tons of Problems.
=> gives us 2 Money sinks
=> does not touch Hacker tech