ie, the Xenon sectors NE of Eighteen Billion, and North of Grand Exchange (plus also Zyarths dominion which seems to have Xenon gating in all over the place?)
If I can keep a force in them indefinately, wiping out the xenon who'll always spawn, it may make travel through them for traders safer.
Now, I've already pacified half the galaxies pirate by making several mega weed/booze hubs: MONG THE UNIVERSE!
Next is the Xenon but no way short of the "iron fist" to keep them calm.
Currently I have
1) Laser tower hub, used to "ring" 20 to 50 laster towers in front of each xenon gate to keep them shut in
2) Have nine Griffon Sentinels (ah joys of prepatch cheapness, lol), fully kitted out but with no fighters in them except one
too easy to loose a fighter, I keep 1 griffon with fighters though for "rapid response" to any attacks on my stations etc and that does have fighters
I do have plenty of fighters but they're mostly parked in Akeelas Beacon for eventual need (falcon haulers for resupply of large ships, eclipses and Ventis for good tough durability and power)
and one Boreas with full photon cannons and incendiary bomb launchers/cluster flaks
(as said, pirates love me and I have a cluster flak hub)
also Kyoto almost finished arming it to the max, have 9 springblossoms but only 5 fully armed so far (one is personal ship, one is CLs trader to buy gear for the Kyoto and other capitol ships, two others are traders for hubs with high value cargo).
have sector/universe traders keeping Aldrin sector well supplied so evenutally the Kyoto will have 6 fully armed Springblossoms
Have hub making Point SIngularity and shockwave cannons for Kyoto and further Terran ships.
So, questions
3) If I use ammo based weapons, ie protoype Antimatter launchers for the Springblossoms, how will that work in Out of Sector combat now? as some folk say any fight uses 1 unit of ammo, so that would mean all such wepaons become useless for prolonged duration as it will quickly get used up?
where as, in sector, Matter antimatter launcher and gauss cannon ammo last for AGES! Energy bolt chain gun ammo doesn't last too long in sector though (usually my fighters have 2 EBCGs to eek out power, and my falcon haulers have 4 because of their lousy laser recharge rates)
thus I'd need to arm all springblossoms with just protoype shockwave cannons if ammo is used up so severely in OOS combat...ugh, take ages to gather enough if that's true
4) will dumping 100 laser cannons in one spot, with a bunch of satellites (to improve the laser towers' crappy sensor ranges), be a good distration/minefield in centre of sector?
5) what ships would be best for this?
Was thinking of say, a "wing" of a kyoto, with two or three Boreas (each with plenty of photon cannon and flaks), maybe a Tyr
ie 4 to 5 M2s fully equipped
or is it a waste/high risk of springblossoms of kyoto being destroyed?
6) is the "fleet" abilty of much practical use yet, ie, for this kind of thing?
