As my excitement towards X:Rebirth waned with all the reported bugs and issues (let's not talk about it, I've read the forums quite thoroughly) I decided to buy Albion Prelude and give it a whirl. I wasn't thrilled at having to rebuild my factory complexes and reassemble my Xenon fleet to get back to where I left off in TC, but that's just how it goes.
(On topic post)
I've already spent millions and many hours re-initiating my old training program to produce the finest ninja marines in the universe. It's slow going to say the least. Yes I am familiar with the training mods etc, but I want to stay Vanilla for now. I've got about 15 marines ready for fight training and about 40 more getting engineering and either hacking or mechanical training. Once they are fight trained (return ship missions, Civilian TL's etc) I'll train up their missing skill (hacking or mechanical)
Anyway, it hasn't escaped my attention that the Rapid response fleets carry marines, really good marines. Marines that could give my marines a run for their money or... with a little additional training join my marines... if you catch my drift...
Now I know this is possible because I already stole 3 of them and added them to my training queue. Their skills are all in the 80-90 range, which represents millions of credits and more importantly days of training. As I'm sure you are all aware, many things are possible, but what I'm looking for is practical.
Scenario
In Black Hole Sun I took a defend station mission. Carrack jumps in. As usual, before I can effectively get to the Carrack our friendly neighborhood RR Minotaur has jumped in and unleashed a s***storm of hammers at it. "Well there goes that". I turboboosted towards the hammers in an effort to shoot some down and hopefully steal the Minotaur's kill, as they have done to me many many many many many times (off topic, lets not talk about how irritating the RR fleets are, it's been done oodles of times). I managed to shoot two down but the Carrack got spanked pretty hard with about 30% hull left. I was swinging around looking for more hammers before moving in for the kill when the Carrack shot down a boarding pod, spilling 3 veteran marines into space. Well that's new
. 30 seconds later the Carrack took another hammer or two and evaporated, I assume with all the high level marines attempting to cut through its hull. Oh AI, 
how dumb can you be?...Anyway, I've never seen the AI attempt to board before but since those marines were heading back towards the Minotaur I decided to see if I could um, give them a ride... Apparently they were quite unimpressed with how their buddies were fired out the tubes then exploded, so they just joined my marines in my cargo hold. I was afraid they would turn into passengers.
Opportunity knocks
I am sure some other enterprising player has noticed this dubious boarding mechanism and already figured out how to abuse the s*** out of it for fun and profit. So finally here's my question..
1) What is a practical strategy for baiting an AI boarding op AND surviving it?
2) How do I effectively shoot down all the hammers and boarding pods without turning the marines into thin red paste?
I'm thinking about using a Cerberus with PBC (yes the laser-tower version). Attack RR M7M, jump to other side of the sector, transfer shields to Falcon Hauler, hop into turret and shoot down all missiles. Aside from being uncomfortably short ranged, I suspect FAA would take out hammers pods and marines with the area of effect damage. The other problem is that I can't risk letting even a single hammer through as my shields start charging from 0. The long range and insta-hit qualities of the PBC make it an intriguing theoretical approach. However this isn't my first Rodeo so I know exactly how reliable theoretical approaches are, hence my questions for the community...
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