Naw, it just flings them until they hit something, be it another ship, or the map edge.
You'd probably be better off with 20 Massive mount repulsors instead of a core mount one
No warppoints, you say?!?
That would pretty much kill the AI; I don't think they'd be able to get out of their homesystem or even build a warppoint opener without scrapping it right away for maintenance.