You will be able to do it.
I have seen AI LCs at the center of a black hole, so they clearly only take damage at the BEGINNING of their own turn. Since the repairs happen at the end of your turn, you'll have the 5000 hitpoints for when your turn begins again.
Oh, yeah.
You can also go for a 150% repair rate, if you feel like using this strategy.
Your base(s) would be supporting repairs on a equally armored baseship, which could attack with engine disabling weapons.
An alternative strategy would be to just let them shoot at your baseship and use up all their supplies, and then falling into the hole
As for fighters, they won't take damage unless they're sitting out unprotected at the beginning of your turn. You could still use them to attack (with engine disabling weapons
) The only difficulty would be in storing them in the limited space you are left with after armor & repair bays.
Having +120% to maintenance reduction would help make this a viable strategy.
I'm gonna try this in my Pirates game where I have zero maintenance
A most exellent secret base would be in a black hole.
[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 06 March 2001).]