defending against mutiny's?

[Taqwus]

Incidentally, I suspect that the intelligence system is deterministic with regards to whether or not an operation beats counterintelligence.

In one single-player game where I'd been slowwwwly taking my time, I ended up hurling 1M intelligence points (10 PPP; also 2 CI 3) per turn at the Earth Alliance, who since they had the most systems to expand in (perhaps no neighbors except me, few black holes blocking them) had a huge amount of intel as well. Individual PPP operations broke through *very* occasionally, most likely when the AI's CI completed and left a 'gap' -- never two turns in a row, for instance. My two CI projects, on the other hand, appeared to give me 100% protection (Intel opts were arranged in sequence, so it was only very rarely that there was a real danger of both completing in the same turn and leaving a gap).