ok, what would happen if you just removed the limit on docking one ship?
i mean, AFAIK, if you order a ship to dock you add a place where to dock, on both ships (dockport numbers or something). now, i don't FRED, or program aside from QB, but i think, that if you would just tell the AI to dock to one ship, but take 2 other ports, the only thing you would kill is the phyisics engine, and perhaps, undocking.
but if you kepa the entire thing docked all the time, you might have a chance.
also, what about trying this, make a station out of some completely differenct objects, with instead of real dockpoints, use endings like peaces of a puzzle. i mean the small part, and then the larger sphere. and on the other side, a hollow, inside a largeer spherical one, and a small tube. you set a station together in FRED, putting all the parts inside eachother, and you disable targeting on all but one, and think of someway to have the damage appear as one number on the escort list.
do i make sense here?