I'm having mastiff as well. like you currently in early game . current active mission are Reached Beta Lethara 1 and Meet Ternie's friend. But i took a detour to Charon for T ships. Each time i've reloaded the game only saw 3 T ships except gunner..no idea why is this happening, probably there is a requirement in order for it to appear or its just purely random luck. i reaally wanna get that gunnner T!!! >.< ,, reloaded tons of tons of tons times still no luck..3hrs wasted.. T_T :(:(:(:(:(:(

If its not there the first time don't bother. Start a new game or visit Seize.
The shop only changes the amount of fighters, not the models.

ok. will try that..

ok, i have tried the place Seize (Simeiz) you meant i think..once enter Gideon, besides surviving the massive onslaught by tons of NESF patrols, got penalty of trespassing -10% of my saving, then suddenly my mothership explode for nothing.. O_o.. gomae over.. how the heck I enter Simeiz?? >.<

The enire system is one nasty minefield so don't go deep. when you choose to side with NESF they show you a path through the system. To avoid been blown to bits go south from the gate, stay at the edge of the system, when you get to the south-west corner go east and look for the gate to Simeiz. The penalty is not for trespassing but for cousing a trafic jam at the gate, so just move your mothership away from the gate and no penalty (the funny thing is that while i fought the guards at gate a NESF patrol came in and it wasn't hostile, simply charged me for cousing a trafic jam, then left.). Except for guards at the gate the Patrols are not hostile, so you can dock your fighters.

Just go up or or down far enough and you won't get hurt by mines. All the mines are close to the horizontal plane. You can also use the "Caplock" key to make the mines more visible.

yay.. i got my gunslinger T finally in simeiz.. now my rare ships collections in complete.. i got all 4 T series, all gen5 series includes Wyvren MK2. now i just have to play the storyline till get into precursor system to loot the precursors ships. hmmm.. is there any other rare ships i'm missing??

btw, gunslinger T is daam cool.. 4Heavy slots, 3 special slots. probably the best ships i got.. i think.. all my chars is piloting them.. ;)

The precursor ship is just a cargo item, not an actual ship.

There seems to be six total 5th generation ships (three of which are the T series). I have one pilot in each of them. Unless there's more I don't know about...

I wonder if it's possible to mod capital ships so the MS can launch them?

Not without screwing the AI of capital ships in the process. Unless you want your Stone Arrows and Stalingrads to attempt strafing runs.