As the Villers system seems likely to be a hotspot, could we have a map of the surrounding territory?
Also IIRC the Alliance knows of another entrance to the Mintek Home system, have they built similar defences around that warp point?
The map is a good idea, I'll post later today.
The Alliance knows of three contact points with the Mintek, if I remember correctly.
The original contact point, leading to the Mintek home world, is the location that the D'Bringi originally discovered the Mintek, and it is in the Phyriseq system. The Alliance has fortified the warp point with bases, fighters, automated weapons, and a nearby fleet, and believes that the Mintek have done the same. That is a reasonable belief given the fact that the warp point is located in their home system.
The second contact point is in the Kure system, which is only two jumps from the Rehorish home world. While the Alliance knows there is a closed warp point in the system, they don't have the precise location and so cannot fortify it. They have a sensor network and a fleet in that system, and fortifications in the next system up-stream, towards the Rehorish home world. Until and unless the Mintek use the closed warp point the Alliance will not be able to localize it.
The third contact point is in the Juath system, which used to be a Mintek frontier colony. The Alliance discovered a closed warp point into the system and launched an invasion that captured the frontier colony, but then discovered that the Mintek warp line into the system was also closed, meaning that they couldn't find their way back to the Mintek empire unless they followed a Mintek ship. The Mintek, who couldn't face the Alliance at that time, cut off the colony and retreated, denying the Alliance a route into their empire.
This has resulted in a standoff. Neither side dares waste their fleet in a direct assault on established warp point defenses, fearing that their remaining units would be too weak to face the fleet of their opponent after taking out the fixed defenses. And neither side will try to exploit the closed warp points they know about, because doing so would open them up to counter-invasion if their attack fails.