3d space ship movement tutorial?

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Boiled Sweets
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It's easy enought to parent an enemy to a pivot and rotate the pivot in a set pattern. But I want to be able to have loosely coupled enemy and movement, i.e. no pivot fixed in 3d space at say 0,0,0.

For example how did ELITE do it?