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I was reminded we need a police ship (because everyone does). So I made one.
The tractor beam is meant more for towing impounded ships and vehicles than combat, but it can be used in combat because the s-foil engines let this thing fly forwards or backwards. Just determines whether you're pointing the torpedo launcher or the tractor beam towards the target. Also it can go underwater. Because cops love hiding just out of sight. Oh, and it lets them operate in water worlds, or whatever, ugh.
I was thinking of giving it light ion cannon turrets, but the repeating ion cannons were right there and I thought they were neat (even though it does drop the damage by 1). I was also thinking of giving it a speed upgrade instead of an armor upgrade. The handling would wind up the same, but I figure 2 armor is more valuable than 1 speed.
Alternatively we could plug in droid brains and make it otherwise unmanned which would free up at least 1HP. Probably more since the gunner brain can't use multiple turrets at once. Though you could get around that by making turrets operated by actual droids instead of the ship's brain(s).
