Eminent Domain
An Iron Fleet stripped of the ten hangar bays that were the entire point of it, and given over to guns. What the Crimson Fleet built to deliver an invasion, the pirates rebuilt to be one. The armour is salvage and steel rather than fury-tempered plate, and it shows — but there is a very great deal of hull, it is in no hurry, and only a stronghold nobody has bothered in a long time can afford to build one.
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A stronghold that fields one of these has not been seriously bothered in a very long time. It is the last thing a pirate yard builds, after every patrol berth is full and every raider has a hull, and the salvage that goes into one would otherwise have replaced a dozen fighters. The arithmetic is simple enough that it is also the strategy: keep a stronghold busy replacing what it loses and it will never build a line ship at all. The crews call it the argument of last resort. Nobody has yet produced a counter-argument at the range it operates from.