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Originally Posted by Pragmatic
I was going to say she was a ship, but it turns out you're right: it's the AI of an autonomous kill vehicle (AKV; basically, a kinetic kill anti-ship missile), as talked about in Deep Beyond.
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AKVs are usually armed with coilguns that can launch their own kinetic munitions and/or nuclear pumped x-ray laser packages. They have a substantial attack and defense capacity beyond just ramming.
However, they do not have the delta-V to operate at long ranges without a mother-ship.
Looks like a space fighter to me.
Fred Brackin