I'm pretty sure that later in the game you can buy torpedos powerful enough to destroy a ship in one hit anyway, albeit not as cool as the internal form of destruction a flash pak uses, but still effective nonetheless. Regardless, I DO know that you can't destroy cap-ships or staions outsisde of plot missions so if there are super-weapons of a sort they can only be used once or twice in the entire game and at critical moments.

From what I have been reading about the game; it seems as we must be a Raider if we are to make it. I would not mind if we could go out and take down the bad guys with a kick but weapon..