the miranu freighter can become a very heavily armed warship if you have the money. it's not the strongest shield wise, and it takes 2 or 3 days to jump (forget which). buy all mass expansions, then load up on turrets. you can get 5 turrets / no guns or 4 turrets / 4 guns ( i think ). 4 shield cap's, a booster, all the armor types, torpedos, needle missles (suck worse than javelins in ev), rockets maybe, etc. then just blow the $hit out of something. or board an azdara!! (the little green things with instant shield regeneration). also, before you turn your freighter into an armed beast, you can do LOTs of trading with all that cargo space (to pay for the upgrading!!)
oh, for starting out, get the scoutship so you can make it through that dead space between UE space & Miranu space. goto mirava, too if you haven't already.
about the fighters ( i think that's what you're talking about
hold option then hit the escort retarget button. check the keyboard setup in the prefs.
most people disagree with my choice of the miranu freighter. but, hey - any other ship have 3 or 400 tons of cargo space??
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