[@6slyboy6] The system requires a warp gate to enter it due to all the stellar phenomena surrounding it. That's how the pirates took over in the first place. Your point probably should have been raised in my very first post when the gate was mentioned, and specifically stated to have been moved in the first place. It's been turned to face the sun to provide a brief bit of disorientation and sensor malfunctions due to being so close to the sun's radiation. Warping into the system has an element of confusion attached for anyone who hasn't been there since the pirates too over, and it's never been fixed since the EOM never gave a shit about this place until there was something to exterminate.

It's supposed to be an uphill battle because they're entrenched and prepared (thus was the reason why there was political BS slowing down EOM response in the previous post and me saying in that post that it gave them time to prepare). Even still, Pirate resources are limited and so it's not impossible that the EOM would retake the system, and force the Perennials to flee, it's just supposed to cost them a lot to do so. That was the point: for an empire of seemingly infinite resources they're going to still feel the cost of this battle.