Trading Faction

[marauder]

Well, I base my characters ship choices and weapon loadouts, where possible, on what the NPCs use.

All lawful companies use house frieghters, transports, adv. transports, trains, adv. trains and armoured transports.

All of them escorted by startrackers or hawks.

No HFs, no VHFs and definately no bombers.

So I don't see why a lawful company needs to use military ships, I can understand a civilian company using two civilian bombers as escorts for the CEOs personal armoured transport, but not for a shipment of food or commodities.

I'd much rather see lawful trading companies using LFs, even mk2 ones, then VHFs and bombers. Because the escorts aren't there to kill pirates, the escorts are there to discourage the pirates or hold the pirates off long enough for the police to arrive.