I just picked up the origin 315p explorer. Going to modify it to be a full-blown recce. Get rid of the tractor beam and replace with a weapon of some type, upgrade the class 3 posts with scanners, and then use the 6 upgrade slots for defences, scanners and maybe fire-and-forget missiles (preferably swarm missiles if they exist in this game) so that if I get in trouble on a recce I can fire the missiles, turn and burn hard (might upgrade the engine too if needed), and fire some defences (i know they were thinking of including chaff and flares maybe). Oh, I can dream, its going to be awesome. I will find the bad guys and then run screaming as fast as I can to hide behind the fighters
or even better to an idris to jump into a small fighter/turret