I don't mind people interjecting as a sort of Mission Control/ Off site commentary, as long as it doesn't get excessive.
Yeah, pretty much.
I'll be honest, I am slightly unsure of what I supposed to be doing. We're trying to dcapture the ship, right?
In which case, we'd want to wipe out the crew and possibly destroy the bridge.
Sorry for being so unclear. The ship is 4 kilometer long, has a crew numbering in the thousands, in is largely inaccessible to your mechs.
You can try to capture it, but you would die. Currently the plan is to destroy enough stuff to prevent them from tipping the scales in the war below. This can be supplies, or the shuttles, preventing them from deploying said supplies.
On a side note, I now realize that it's a bit silly to have inertial artificial gravity in the hanger bay of ship made by a civilization which clearly possesses artificial gravity systems, but anyway.
Maybe inertial gravity is cheaper on large-scale things?
Nah, the logical flaw is: Why would you want to have gravity in a hanger bay? Things are so much easier to move around in zero gravity. Also, docking a ship to a ship whose hull is spinning around isn't easy. To make it worse, ships docked inside the vessel are moving at a different speed than the hull, where the airlock is located.
...though you realize that technically the cargo is standing still, and you're moving.
ebbor, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Yeah, sorry. Everything is relative.
Are all the listed mechs manned?
You can't even see their weaponry (if any) or identify their type, making it quite hard to know whether they're manned or not. Utilizing UGV mechs for these kind of duties wouldn't be exceptional though.