Gytrash's rant.

[Moberg]

A piss-poor exploration ship relying too much on the random ally who just happens to be in the same area of deep space to answer the distress call, annoyed. You'd think that after experience with every colony ship in human history ever, zoner colonists would have the sense not to go into the rigors of deep space without at least a heavily armed battleship.

One word. Escorts.

You either hire yourself one or gather Zoner ones around you. And having an escort does not necessarily mean that they have to fight. Scouting for enemies and disrupting them has already saved transports/battleships I escorted from bomber/cap swarms.

If you fly a battleship alone without any escorts, you are supposed to be doomed. They are no ship that universally ravages everything that comes into sight.

If you in deep space nomad swarms get close to you, you're screwed anyway. Battleship weapons won't help you against them. Your best hopes is to get away before they can reach you, and therefore you get escorts.

To get rid of those bombers, your best choice is a gunboat or a fighter.