Excellent comment! The only thing I would add is that I'd presume that if space was popular enough to fight over, there would be several ships flying around on

Excellent comment! The only thing I would add is that I'd presume that if space was popular enough to fight over, there would be several ships flying around on several different trajectories. Between the vastness of space and an abundance of hot targets, it would not be trivial to locate another ship, especially if warships were designed with this in mind.