*harsh*
If you don't belive me, that's fine. It does not however change anything.
This is my current threat.
The previous one was the Hegemony with both levels at "evenly matched", and they managed to trash both the station and the port.
This one looks like it's going to put the station in again but not do anything else. I intend to be present this time to see what happens, and maybe put some missiles somewhere sensitive.
Here is my main colony, and the target of all this aggro.
Note the terrorism and lack of AI cores.
If I turn the free port off atm the colony goes 151K into the red. Even with all the cores I have assigned, it still totals -22K.
Will have to check again when the fuel prod. comes back online, but it should be somewhere around ~250K with the port on. Hopefully that will be enough for me to turn it off at some point.
I could assign some AI cores to reduce costs, but I'm more than a bit wary of these 'inspection' guys.
Q: What sort of threat are the inspection fleets? Going off the lore, they seem like the kind of thing that would make expeditions look quite restrained given the Hegemony's well known love of AI.
Maybe double (or more) colonies in a system is the way to go next time. Along with a great deal more exploration, looking not only for decent planets but also large systems to populate.
This system only has 1 decent world, 1 'can only afford to support mining' world, and 1 worthless irradiated rock.
Interestingly enough I have 3 other colonies besides the one above.
A small bare-bones mining world in the same system, solely for collecting volatiles.
A heavily built up world a few ly away, but with no free port.
And a stockpile in Duzahk.
NONE of these have had any attention whatsoever.
(Yes, I am aware that they are not the 'best' planets ever, and that lower hazard levels = mo' money. Limited amount of exploration done due to wanting to see new content etc etc.)
This is a map of the sector, and you can see the three systems I have occupied.
These jokers are so determined to use literally their entire annual fuel supply to harrass some idiot out on the fringes of nowhere.
[edit]
Just ran a few days and got a new threat:
Same as last time, except less/weaker ground forces.
I think the colony has grown since the last one.