The Boreas is bleh

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Trying to set up effective rep grinding in grand exchange using a fleet of OOS ships.

I thought a boreas would be a great choice. Nope. It dies very fast when a J pops in.
I does reasonably well against P/PX/Q but they can put it into hull.

It's looking like a Boron M2 (or two or three ) might be a bettter choice to build on. 33% extra shield and hull.
for OOS combat I'm just going for biggest bang so it's outfit with PPCs and FAAs

The other thing I've noticed is that "Emergency Jump" is not working on my Boreas. It's set to 25% shield but it never jumps. It stays and dies. I'm guessing that's the fight command I and II doing it's thing but they're part of the ship.

Ultimately I seem to have spent about 125 million on a white elephant. It might be ok as a personal ship.

I've done a lot of searching and not found much useful info - anyone got any good suggestions for a protection fleet in Grand Exchange that can survive a wing of J P PX and a handful of fighters?