WaspLV

On Hardcore and Insane difficulty Perma-destruction is activated and Block Threshold is 100%. ... player's ship, once destroyed, cannot be reconstructed at a repair dock, and all turrets and upgrades on the ship is lost ... ... Block Threshold is the threshold a ship's HP must be before blocks can start to break ... If you lose turret on this difficulty you will lose it forever. https://avorion.gamepedia.com/Difficulty To protect turrets you need more massive base blocks with more HP and protect it with armor. Or just place them on large chunk of armor. Also use integrity field generator. ... Blocks inside integrity fields can now take 20 times as much damage before they explode ... ... Block and Ship damage from integrity-protected blocks reduced by 50% ... https://avorion.gamepedia.com/Integrity_Field_Generator I usually build it like that:

You can stack inside small ship extremly many blocks inside each other. Just place Block on outher hull and by using its intertnal surfice add more blocks inside. It can be view on images in attachment. Example ship also in attachment (E1.zip) E1.zip