I have a dread, I dock it on a non-Navy base eg: Planet Manhattan.
I die to a bunch of Warturtles.
I'm now stuck on Planet Manhattan without crew and therefore can't launch.
Yay.
Not good to implement. However, the concept of increasing the ship's weapons stats might be useful. Have something like "experienced gunners" to increase rate of fire and "experienced engineers" to reduce cruise charge time. Or something similar.