There is a specific quirk which lets Plasma Cannon Shots pass through the shield the drones create 
i am debating on doing something about that or just making it a feature. There was also a bugreport on some weird
interaction that can happen between motes or something related to the ship that carries those and the shield of the
Morion that causes a game crash but i could not coroberate those claims science i updated the code and mod the
current game version. If you encounter issues dont use drones and your save should be fine the drones dont have
a faction entry and NPC Smods works on a whitelist basis now so only the player can intoduce these platforms to
the game right now. There is a actual toggle in the settings json but it just turns a debug feature on and off.