Please add a toggle function & hotkey for Repair Drones

[solardawning]

As title: Please add a toggle on our ship panel & hotkey binding to toggle Repair Drones between 'Launch' and 'Docked'.

There's numerous situations in which a player flying a large ship may not want their repair drones to activate.
For example- some ships kill their drones when firing guns due to pathing bugs.
You may not want enemy fire to kill your drones at the moment.
Passing through gates kills active drones.
Etc.

I'd love to be able to keep them docked, and only deploy when I'm in a safe location to repair.

[LameFox]

Have asked for this intermittently for years. It's obnoxious on the player ship, they will all just come out in combat and die and leave you wondering why you even bothered installing them to begin with.

[solardawning]

Yes, it's frustrating that this is even a thing in high attention. Why not just let them work internally, like on frigates?