I'm gonna have to get in on this next season. Madman and I were working on some drones, but due to real-life (yes, that still exists... sadly) time crunches we didn't finish the rack, or the missile drones. We made a heat-seeking missile drone... excellent TK machine. While duelling about two dozen of them in a terrible gunship design, the most dangerous thing on the battlefield to then ... was themselves.
Dumb heatseeking missiles track anything giving off a signature that is not the launch vessel (usually, unless you're a really bad shot and/or pilot), which means that the two dozen drones flying around have a MUCH better chance of dying than me. Target-rich environment. Yes!
But 30 TIEs of approximately 31 mass each (or something close, I just know 30 drones fit the weight req) can be lethal. Especially those cannon ones, man those things burn crap down.
I want to see, however, if I can fit that gunship I was talking about. Through judicious use of magic reactor boxdim things (Only played starmade a few months now) that I didn't know about in the first design of the gunship, I have increased power. By stripping drive systems that AI don't use, and also by stripping a large secondary missile launcher and its accompanying capacitor banks, I found space and power for ridiculous amounts of shielding. Its primary mission is the AMS defense role. While Madman fired a lot of missiles off the heat-seeker drone, I laughed as one... out of several dozen... connected.
This all on a (catalog mass, I don't have one spawned) 195.3 mass vessel. It's got like 9 AMS C-C turrets. One block each. That thing fires like a minigun. Six shots per SECOND may be underrating that thing... holy crap it was awesome. It's still crappy, looks bad, but hey, if it works for a little while... well the things are cheap.