Automated weapons (static or dynamic)?

[prophet224]

Hi all! Brand new player here. Very interested in this whole game, and wish I had heard about it earlier. Excited to see where it goes. 

 

I'm seeing a lot of quite reasonable concern about PVP vs non-PVP/builders, and casual players, and I'm wondering if there has been any discussion of automated weaponry? I haven't gotten to use weapons at all yet, so again, complete N00B here, but wouldn't some level of automated weaponry on-ship make it more interesting for PVP-ers and provide some level of protection for your cargo haulers and such? I get that you can have a friend come along for protection, and I also agree that there needs to be more countermeasures as well eventually (shields, chaff, etc.) but even lightweight inaccurate automated defenses would make more of a risk/reward decision for attackers and provide a little bit of confidence for the potential target. 

 

I did read a thread where someone said a statement had been made about automated weapons, but there was no reference to what that statement was. ?