Good ol' kinetic artillery for ships. They launch an explosive payload with no/minimal guidance (Excalibur?) after firing to impact and detonate on a target. Can be turreted.

To differentiate from lasers, they can use ammo placed in a magazine like missiles. Can have bore size researches, barrel length researches (both could affect tonnage), and also reliant on missile warhead research for damage. They can also show up as interceptable like missiles do, but they move their full length for their first tick on spawn unlike missiles that spawn on top of your ships for the first tick.

They also don't use energy and are reliant on a reloading tech for fire rate.

Please, can you share some examples of stations that you place at DSPs (far from planets)?
Do you prefer one large behemoth, filled with sensors, missiles, guns, refuelling capacity, MSP, hangar, etc.? or few smaller bases, each one specialised for one or two missions (that can be built in parallel, and each one easily moved by one tug)?

Great analogy Zed 6.

That's what I'm aiming for 

All constructive feedback is welcome ExecCrawfish.

Working with AI can be very exciting but it has is own challenges as well.
Its great to provide the author with some ideias based on the experiences of the game/scenario but if not revised enough it can get repetitive and predictable.

I'm working on finding a good balance beetween both to benefit the overal narrative.

By the way, most of the content is created by me from my game experience with a little florish by AI. Probably this is the part I need to better curate in future posts   

Will donating help get the wiki back online? I need that reference to play. Willing to pay for that info.