Invasion quest and AI ships ability outside of their own sector

[Kumenero]

Hey I dont know if this was already mentioned, but I finally got a quest where I had to invade a sector ( Helping the PAR fighting the HOP ), but I noticed that the invading force got a problem getting to that sector, like they get stuck in a "highway-loop". They just overshoot the targeted sector to the next sector and then turn around and end up getting back to the sector they originally came from, because they missed their stop again.
After some minutes, one or two ships manage to get out, but yea they just get shredded (rinse and repeat).

Something else I noticed is (maybe I might just imagining things?), that if a ship from a specific faction (lets just use my "invasion quest here") fights in another sector, they seem incredibly way weaker then they are in their own sector.
For example I witnessed a L HOP ship literally destroyed a M PAR ship in seconds, that L HOP ship then proceeded to the PAR sector and then got shredded there by an M and S PAR ship in seconds?

So maybe someone observed the same thing or it is just my game?