Knockback

Knockback is a effect that is based on your mass and what the force was. For example a side-fighter is not going to take knockback from a Fly but the side-fighter will take knockback from a Shadow X-3 main pulse. The bastion does deal knockbck to smaller ships because of the high amount of fire power, high mass ships like the Barracuda will also deal knockback, but high mass ships don't get much knockback if any at all.