Pirate Frigate idea

[Zelot]

I know we cannot have capital pirate ships looming around like a pile of hornets on vodka going "Money or die" all the time, I know this. This has since led to PTrans, bombers and Sabres flying around with absolute glee.

Therefore I suggest a new ship that is powerful enough to take on a transport with some ease, but is not good at all against taking on bombers. This can be done by giving it good weaponry, but with bad firing arcs, as in no more than three guns firing at one point, or just a low number of them with a decent shield, but still not anti-bomber or anti-transport worthy.

This idea strikes me because what if we had hybrid combat transports floating around hunting for cargo instead of electronic penis money, or credits as its called. Cargo piracy has flavour, and the the ship have a good hold, but nothing like a transport's so it can't take all of its stuff.

This would allow some brave pirates to go into the great blackness and try to hunt for cargo, while knowing their ship is not good against bombers at all, or fighters.

The ship is bigger than a gunboat, maybe bigger than a Ptrans, just with not at much of a cargo hold so it can't be a trader very well. Wish I could design it.:(

Opinions?

It's called a Raba or a Gunboat.

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