Rheinland pirates in need of their own ships?

[Locke]

As much as I'd like to see these pirate/terrorist factions get more custom designed ships of their own, I'm a huge huge fan of unlawfuls using captured/subverted ships of their enemies. Modified Rheinland gunboats and bombers for example, or pretty much any freighter/transport (some converted to combat duty as shipping raiders).

The Red Hessians are a sizeable faction with their own ship production capabilities, but it is a certainty that an organization like theirs would make use of captured and customized ships in significant numbers.

It doesn't seem like it would be very hard to repaint the current Rheinland vessels and change around the weapons hardpoints.

One aspect of balance in many games that I've enjoyed is: Lawfuls have better defense, and Unlawfuls have better offense.
I think it would make sense for the "refurbished" ships to have more weapons slots than the original, but sacrifice armor to make room for the added weapons. It wouldn't have to be anything drastic.

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