>>5213903>Try to convince her otherwise."even though those very same people which would target you are currently getting demolished by our own fleet? maybe i am just not getting the bigger picture, but if the local area was to be rid of the pirates, would a station not just help facilitate trade with the surrounding systems, the very systems which would otherwise pay so much that they will buy it from pirates? if anything, it might just make that very piracy begin to become obsolete. since it would become easier to get it legitimately and not from raiding parties. and even then, what would you have to loose? you said it yourself, you have kilometers of water between you and anyone trying to invade. if they were to take the station, you would loose nothing other than the station itself, since we are building it for free right now anyway"
and if that doesn't work, then just...i donno, just make that same station but around the gas planet, maybe there could be stuff like starship/dropship non-ftl fuel refining by capturing the gas from the planet, effectively making it work as a interplanetary bus-stop for neutral parties.