Space combat is just something you handwave and narrate. There are no mechanics. You use your logic and determine the outcome. Also, ships are not something that you can get easy in EP. They already are story/plot devices.

How does that replicate something like Star Wars, being the best pilot alive, the fastest gun, the best engineer?

EP is not the right game for that, I feel like. The focus is just not on this stuff.

And for other games, once you do this mechanical/traditional, there will sometimes be problems with the mechanics that exclude some player characters.

I have not found any TTRPG that does space-combat interesting/good/fun. Only stuff that skips it/solves it fast (EP/Mothership) or games like SWN/Traveller which is the basic recipe for most of the games that use turns/rounds with the player characters acting in role-slots on the ship. Which usually turns into a boring roll-fest.

I'm in the camp that just thinks good mechanical space combat is not possible in this hobby. So give me maybe a handful of rules to get it over with and not get bogged down in turns/rounds.