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In addition to justification in real life, there is precedent in the fictional background of the Starlancer universe for cap ships with missile turrets. Before Chris Roberts left EA and signed with Microsoft, he was the creative force behind the popular Wing Commander series. In WC Prophecy, all the alien cap ships had regular turrets which fired laser rounds and missile turrets. The WC cap ships were more realistic because a fighter could NOT disable a cap ship. To take down a cap ship, you ha…

Speaking of Wing Commander, one of the weapons I'd like to have from that game (that was also used in SL) is a "dumb" high velocity, high payload missile. I haven't played WC in years now, so I forget the name of it. I think they were screamers in SL. But those would be fun for targetting cap ships or gunboats.