When I first saw the thing, I questioned why I would ever want to use a transport for scouting. Then I saw the bit about it being capable of laying laser turrets. At first I was excited to have a new toy to use against the Hiigarans - why charge in and seek a glorious death when you can instead lay a sneaky dishonorable cowardly cunning trap to ensure victory? But then I actually tried using the thing.

Deploy Mines (n) does not seem to actually do anything, and there is no construction options for turret mines. In my frustration I accidently built a supply station. It can build Darkets, however said fighters have trouble docking with it. And ignoring R&D costs the price of the station + transport somehow exceeds that of a entire heavy carrier.

Surely my warriors are not so foolish as to make a ship that is this bad. What am I missing?