Narrator: Aboard the Mercenary Warship Touch-and-Go
Kevyn: I looked into that hollowed-out freighter hull. It isn't what we want.
Kevyn: The fake hull thing has been done before. Pirates know to watch for it. Nothing we dress the Touch-and-Go as can hide the fact that she's at least a Destroyer under all the make-up.
Kevyn: Our annie-plants have hundreds of times the output of a freighter's plants. Even if we run lean, a passive scan will give us away.
Kevyn: . . . which is why we will be almost completely powered down.
Captain Tagon: I hate this plan already.
Kevyn: Oh, but there's more. We hide the Touch-and-Go inside a giant canister, and use a mid-range superfreighter to haul her.

Our main annies will be powered down, and emergency and primer plants will only be trickling.

We use maybe half the armour squadron as "escorts," so we look like a prize worth fighting for.
Kevyn: The pirates will disable the superfreighter first. When they close to claim the cargo canister, we power up and spring the trap.
Captain Tagon: What if they're flying around in something that can take us?
Kevyn: Then we get to choose between allowing ourselves to be captured, tortured, and maybe killed, or dying as a bright flash on somebody else's Tac screen.
Kevyn: Or, you know, maybe we could collect a little intel and make sure we know what they're packing.
Captain Tagon: I'll get somebody on that right away.