Posted by: lumporr
« on: December 02, 2023, 07:22:37 AM »This is one of the advantages of larger commercial vessels - in the 100-200kt+ range, you can add on a commercial hangar deck, maybe a maintenance module for the bigger, slower ships, a little extra MSP, and then every one of your government freighters has at least some protection. I usually use a 1,000 ton box of missile tubes for this purpose, to dissuade any lone raiders, but a pair of bombers could also work. If you wanted to put an extra hangar deck on there as well, 2,000 ton corvettes have been enough to either distract or dissuade raiders in my own experience.
I usually combine this with a doctrine of tugs/barges, and put the hangars on my tugs, so that no matter what they're pulling, they'll always have some defenses available. In fleets, this works to even greater effect, with a larger salvo of missiles (or fighters or whatever) available to see off threats. In terms of roleplay, these are listed as "deployable weapons", which also lends itself to arming large, militarily important stations (such as a DS9, for example), but I think that's probably a more common use case anyway.
I usually combine this with a doctrine of tugs/barges, and put the hangars on my tugs, so that no matter what they're pulling, they'll always have some defenses available. In fleets, this works to even greater effect, with a larger salvo of missiles (or fighters or whatever) available to see off threats. In terms of roleplay, these are listed as "deployable weapons", which also lends itself to arming large, militarily important stations (such as a DS9, for example), but I think that's probably a more common use case anyway.