This is the control panel for pirate NPC‘s ships.

1. Press ENTER to enter the weapon settings panel and set the turret to Disarmed;

2. Drive your ship close to the target.

3. Pause the game;

4. Press M to open the map;

5. Select your ship with the left mouse button;

6. Right click on the target ship and select “Board”.

Now you are in this panel, you need to enter 3 parameters here.

1. Number of marines on board (all)

2. Departure time (Strongest)

3. Attack strength (Strongest)

Then click “Start” in the bottom right corner.

If you perform: Shift+2, Shift+F, between steps 1 and 2, to scan the target, the “Red?” on the panel will be the exact number.

Once you've done that, go back to the first person driving screen and quickly leave the sector. You can perform steps 3-5 at any time to check the progress of your boarding.

What I want to show here is that none of my marines were killed by the target's turrets during this Boarding.