Creating a functional IX for SH5 should be technically possible - most needed things I can think of are - or probably are - moddable. The major problem would be manpower - you can probably count all active modders creating content for SH5 at the moment on your fingers, and playable IX boat is a massive undertaking for one person.
Links to mkiii's screenshots in this thread don't seem to be working so it's hard to tell how far he got with it. Hopefully, he'll return and pick it up one day, or at least allow other modder to continue his work.
If mkiii won't return and someone would try to start from scratch, I think best course of action would be to start with non-playable IX first (like GrenSo's XXI currently in the making), then when this is finished move on to "fake IX" aka exterior of IX with interior of VII, making this playable would not be as daunting - perhaps possible for single modder - and still a huge leap forward. Then, work on interior of the boat, which would be most time consuming part.
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