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> With no controls on the ship, pirates wouldn't be able to take control. It doesn't matter if there aren't any switches or touch screens. Once someone has ac

> With no controls on the ship, pirates wouldn't be able to take control. It doesn't matter if there aren't any switches or touch screens. Once someone has access to the engine room and steering gear compartment, all bets are off. They can physically adjust valves to get the ship going where they want it to. Even if they don't have any tools to gain entrance into the ship, they just have to block the air-intakes and the engines will shut down. If it's battery-powered, they just have to let the ship run over some appropriately-sized lines which will get caught in the propellor and seize the shaft.

hwillis 9y ago
Or just get onboard and start smashing stuff until the boat stops. It would be pretty hard to prevent a grapple hook from working (one could imagine automatic water cannons though). Best idea I've got is flexible rods sticking out from the perimeter of the ship to block the hook. The hook gets caught in the rods and when you pull it slides off the end. It's possible to make doors that are extremely hard to cut through... but they can always just cut through the wall instead.