Ship-to-ship (or entity) combat is likely to be one of the last stages of Combat to be implemented.
Currently, we have player vs creature combat. The next likely steps are squad combat, creature retaliation, and then player-vs-player, player-vs-entity, and entity-vs-entity.
Nobody knows how long it may be before any of those are implemented, but they are being worked on in some way.
Or arrest and execute defenseless hard-working builders, but you need the proper authority and meet the appropriate conditions to do so (and it's even less sporting than bashing a squall repeatedly until it's nothing but a smear on the ground)