Question on Trader/Pirate encounters...

[Daniel_Feenix]

Are trains allowed to use gunboat guns (Like will the game let you equip them)? I never got a chance to scan him, but he killed me in one hit...*

No, transports such as Trains use Class 7 turrets, the most powerful of which does 900 hull damage and 450 to shields; a stationary Dagger has no chance against that kind of firepower.