[Spaceships] How should a large station... duck?

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by DataPacRat

Would it help if the star this cylinder orbits was deep enough in a nebula to make it infeasible to pick out the cylinder from afar?-

I feel like pointing out something obvious. If the enemy can pick out the cylinder from that kind of range, then the people who built the cylinder can definitely see the kind of energy expenditure it takes to accelerate a missile to relativistic speeds; something which would be much more obvious.