To what extent can the Vulcan be operated by a solo player? As in, does the ship need to be actively flown by a pilot while conducting repairs, refueling or rearming?
TL;DRA solo player can fly the Vulcan, park it and work the drone stations without active piloting, and can set remote turrets to AI control for defense, though only two stations exist for controlling four drones and two turrets.
It doesn't need to be actively flown. It really depends on the scenario. If you're doing it at the edge of atmosphere where gravity is taking effect, it's probably not the wisest time to leave the pilot's seat and start doing stuff. But no, you can fly it by yourself, you can park it up, turn around, jump in one of the support stations, do the drone stuff.
Yeah, I hope you're not getting shot at.
Yeah, so the two support stations control the remote turrets and the drones. Obviously, there's four drones, two turrets, only two places to control it from. You've got to make some decisions about what you're going to do at one time. If you've read the Shipyard posts, which I highly recommend, there's a whole page about remote turrets and how we plan to allow players to essentially give AI control to them. So if you're a solo player, you probably want to take your computer, take out the blades that come with it by default, stick some remote control ones in there. So then those turrets are just automated defense and you can focus on doing repair.