Serial has wanted for some time to alter the specs of the Motherships to make them more survivable. Specifically:
1) Arm them with Flak's..for de facto invulnerability from M5's, M4's; and a fighting chance vs. M3's and lighter M6's.
2) Speed sufficient to outrun M2's, M1's, most M6's..but not too much as to unbalance game.
3) Hangar space for 20-25 fighters.
At DDRS we're looking at modding the Mobile Pirate Base accordingly (despite as a rule our not tweaking specs of vanilla ships). It makes good sense for us, as we use Deadly's asteroid base as pirate bases..and thus the PMB is sort of 'unused'.
It's also our way of thanking Serial for a job bloody well done
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Hieronymos