Boarding Party: Where battered hulks and surrendered ships are concerned, yes, if the delta-v needed to catch them is within reasonable bounds. Even occasionally elsewhere, with some specially designed boarding pods – but that’s crazy-difficult enough there has to be something really valuable on the other ship. Of course, where it differs from the standard trope is in the flood of hunter-killer microbots (to turn anyone not planning on surrendering/honoring their surrender into hamburger) and infowar automation (to seize control and ensure no-one gets any clever-clever ideas about grav pong) that comes along with the guys in power suits.
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Space Repo Men: seize disputed ship, take to friendly port, let former owners sue.
Ah, you want to take it on the ground, if that’s your game. Lenders get so _cranky_ when you return their expensive asset all shot up…
And by ‘on the ground’ are you including ‘hard-docked to a station’, as I’m sure a lot of ships aren’t really designed to ‘land’.