User blog comment:RandomGuy96/So how do planetary defense cannons work?/@comment-5436239-20130127223836/@comment-4967682-20130127234836

You make some good points. But...

Why couldn't raiders/slavers/pirates/normal frigates destroy the guns? Their ships clearly have weapons. Why is their range and power capped off compared to other ships, when mass accelerators basically mean that infinite range is the norm when fighting against ground targets?