[Taqwus]

I find that a surprise salvo of Crew Insurrection ops can also be quite useful as a spot-defense. Of course, it doesn't scale -- no matter how many intel points you have, you'll only CI twelve ships a turn, at best. But if you're up against fleets large enough that twelve ships per turn doesn't even matter, by that time defense is probably not a viable option.

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