Docking arms? What are you on Triv? Is the TBP workload getting to you? 
They were only seen once. During season 5, when Lenier's fighter was grapled onto that Centauri warship. I can't recall whether it was seen while he was docked to it, or if it was seen in the footage as he presented it to the council. The ship he's grapled to enters a centauri staging area and at one point you can make out part of a Marcanos with some Primus class docked to it.
i didnt think about that so far. in my refs i didnt see any cap ship docking arms, just those hangars.
but if you want i am sure with a bit of artistic freedopm i can add some docking arms. just tell me how many you want 
The docking arms themselves are quite simple. They emerge from the equater of the station head out for a bit, and then curve 90 degrees down. If I had Season 5 on DVD, I'd grab a screenshot for you. However, I had an idea that could make your job a little easier. Since we have multi-docking and daisy-chain docking, the "arm" could be made as its own model, and then docked to the station in FRED if needed. The downside is that it would need another entry in the table entry for the arm.
Speaking of keeping the number of entries in the ships table file down, I just had a little idea. We could eliminate all but 3 of the asteroid entries, since IIRC the same size asteroids for each different colour, use the same model just remapped. We'd still need to keep the asteroid models themselves, but we'd just need one color type in the tables, then use texture-replacement to select which map we want. The downside is that its more work for the FREDder, but if we ever start to encroach on the ship limit, we have this to give idea to give us some breathing room.
