So, I wanted to get an idea of how many Star Swarm ships there are, so I turned on the option to use real ship names/class names, and spawned in 9 extra cruisers and 6 extra destroyers, for a total fleet of about 900,000 tons, so I could actually beat the FACs I knew about.
Having forced the star swarm to retreat from the system, going by the ship name numbers in the intel screen the Star Swarm apparently have/had at least 784,513 tons of FACs, beam ships (The Carnifex Class), and defense ships (Hive Guard). Plus a 273,599 ton "Very Large Hive", which is obviously the mothership, plus 4 131,000 ton ships (Tervigon Class) that I am guessing are carriers based on the class name. How the hell is a player suppose to deal with over 1. 5 million tons of warships? (Yes I know they don't all stay together, but still)