I have run into some rather odd Star Swarm, so far 8 ships of 3 classes encountered with a minimum tonnage of about 9000 tons. Still very fast about 4 times faster than my fleet at 16,000kms and armed with some hideosly long range beam weapons at 560,000km (double my maximum range) they have a spinal weapon doing 14 and another weapon doing 4 . They managed to drop the hit probablity of my 25,000kms missiles down to 0 so I suspect very good ECM although those missiles had no ECCM.
What was odd was no fighter/FAC class vessels , had anyone else run into a swarm like that? I would have thought they were invaders except for the race picture and that the ship which somehow got into close beam range of me left no wreck , and they are eating wrecks.
The 9000 ton ship is clearly an escort with 10cm laser equivalants, the 20,000 ton ship a beam combatant with 11 heavy lasers(42 damage) and a 94 damage spinal laser. The other class encountered is a none combatant, reasonably certain I have not run into the Queen yet. I have run away to hide on the other side of a jump point
