There's an active 'refuses to die' thread about the captured Solarian SD's from the Battle of Spindle and Filerata's folly, even though David himself has said fighting ships, they're not useful, and likely can't be made so purposefully, given that it's far more cost effective and useful to build a bunch of Rolands or Sag-C's for the same crewing requirements, etc.
That said, if they haven't already been junked, as a group those dang big useless boats are soaking up empty but bothersome orbital space around busy planets, so perhaps they could use a few crews to selectively move some of them one at a time to smaller systems, say in the Silesian Confederacy or the Talbott quadrant to act as a core for a tiny space station, never to move from that destination system ever again.
The why would be that Grayson, for example lost fusion power capability for hundreds of years, and we read about other systems that practically fell back to "dark ages" levels, and w read about mining stations that got jumped by pirates. Even though it's useless as a mobile fighting ship, both of those scenarios go away with an SD-based station orbiting overhead.
Under the presumption that it would be worth the bother to move them rather than junking them, then what?
