I'm assuming that if the Diktat is making those weapons they should have the blueprints in their capital for you to steal.
I mean good luck doing that, buy possible.
Sindria is one of the hardest places to steal blueprints from, but it is not too much harder than Kazeron.
My blueprint acquisition plan:
* Search for blueprint packs at the fringe, so that I do not get common junk like Harpoons or Hammerheads after raiding industry worlds.
* Raid New Maxios and Asher for blueprints. Indies is the easiest to raid and has a huge smorgasbord of blueprints. Church has some others.
* Raid Kapetyn Starworks for rare pirate ships.
* Raid Raesvelg for XIV and other ships, and some elite weapons. Hardest of the "no battlestation" industry worlds, but still much easier than below.
* Raid Culann for high-tech ships and elite weapons. Easiest of worlds guarded by a battlestation, but still much harder than Raesvelg.
* Raid Kazeron for Champion. Harder than Culann to raid.
* Raid Sindria for as alternative for some Tri-Tachyon stuff if Culann has too low stability to raid.
Damn, you're right. It hadn't clicked for me that the Manticore was as tanky as it is, since I always thought it was more like a low tech Sunder. So you can add that to the list of line ships then. I understand now why it's a lot harder to come up with good midline destroyers that don't step on its toes.
Wasn't the point of asking for missile destroyer was something the League can use for their new missiles, since they are exclusively midline (i.e., Manticore not an option for them)?