Been playing Captain Forever.

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By way of Pentadact.

Above are my best ships. That second one got me all the way to LAW 5, by exploiting a flaw in the AI; if two ships are shooting at you, and one gets in the way of the other, they will both continue shooting. Then you can just drag the relevant bits onto my ship before the survivor finishes going "Frank, NOOO!!!" and comes after me in righteous fury, scoot off to somewhere quiet, reconfigure, and then find another victim. Problem was, by the time I died (the second ship, more or less), I was absolutely outclassed by everything, meaning I had basically no offensive capability. Got to close to a ship, and boom.

PROTIP: The game has a strafe button, but you need to have horizontal thrusters to use it. Also, I'm fairly certain that's my first Protip actually about a game.