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Has anyone managed to destroy a pirate base? I'm all for the bidding war/nuissance factor of pirates but what I don't like is how their forces scale so ridiculously with 0 economic growth. It seems like no matter how many planets I conquer and how advanced/large a fleet I make, going to the pirate base is just suicide being outnumbered about 4 to 1. I enjoy paying them to harass my enemies early on.. but when I've conquered 90% of the known universe I -should- then be able to crush them for thei