Questions include:<br/>1.  What is the acquisition modifier to get a warsphere?<br/>2.  If Sarah teaches him, can Thraxius get Forbiden Lore(Xenos), and for how much?<br/>3.  Does the Mextel Cluster have any blue giant stars?<br/>4.  What is the accurate sensor range inside the nebula?<br/><br/>This last one pertains to a tactic that you SHOULD know about, as otherwise you might assume the fleet is together.  The basic idea is that the escort ships are just outside of sensor range of each other, but close enough that their sensor bubbles overlap.  Therefore a pirate spotting one of us won't see any of the others.<br/><br/>So as (if) our effective sensor ranges decrease, our formation will tighten.  Also, we're hoping that the pirates will see one of the escorts and not the cruiser (which, being in the back with all avenues of appoach to it searched first by it's escort, is likely), and, seeing a lone, smaller ship, will attack and chase them... not knowing that the small prey they see knows right where it's cruiser is, and is about to lead them under the cruiser's guns.<br/><br/>That, and we plan to scout the actual pirate base location with only the Alexander and the Kobras Aquairre, which hasn't been mentioned in the main thread yet because we assume that something will happen before we get there.