@Gerion,
@ltmauve
The power thing is a no go, I tried it earlier and it's not possible without some kind of power supply turret constantly tracking the drone. Having said that it's nearly impossible to pack on enough energy to sustain the drone throughout an engagement.
Shields are likewise similar to power but a bit easier, the drawback is actually that it takes up so much space on the mothership. Now if space is no issue on your titan GO FOR IT, some designs would greatly benefit from the extra space. Mine on the other-hand already run under the assumption that it'll never be big enough anyways (the shield), so I include only 1 shield recharger regardless of size. This frees up mothership space and power consumption, not to mention logic circuits or turrets. It also means should they be hit by a stray rapid cannon round, say from AMS, they will most likely recover that easily.
I did however sketch out on paper a "repair bay" for whenever repair beams eventually get plex storage to replace lost blocks. Said bay does include both shield and energy transfer beams. Mostly for compete-ness sake I suppose.
Now when you think about having a turret for each drone, that means having an additional 20+ turrets dedicated to support with no guarantee they won't target the same unit. It becomes a very costly endeavor to upkeep. Additionally if you only use the beam while they're docked every stray bump and push will drain some of that drones already very limited shield supply. Once collision damage is implemented that could
potentially cost your drones severely.
To be honest I'm not sure why I even include shields to begin with. Habit maybe? one could certainly cram more power/weapons in the same required space and not really limit it's already incredibly short lifespan anyhow. Perhaps drones should
not include shields and instead go pure offense?