As a fan of FTL and Convoy, this is right up my street.
I've not played too much yet, and don't get very far, think the difficulty curve might be a little steep. For the first few goes I came across a ship with a missile and they killed me instantly. Then I learnt how to access the build menu, and built myself a missile launcher, but they still beat me
On the next run, I built cannons, which let me shoot them down first, but the second ship I came across then had a massive bulk head, two missile launchers, both with forcefields above them! Their first barage took out my missle launcher, so basically I was stuck with two cannons hitting the bulkhead and got flattened by the next missile attack.
Definitely one to play again