To preface, I should say that I'm playing the rebellion beta, and always using the newest patch of it.

Now on to the problem. I'm fairly new to the game, and have only played the vasari in the original game, and now advent in the beta. I got a bit overdosed on the Advent though, and i wanted to try out the TEC.  So I check some of the most commonly used strategies and tips for TEC, and apparently Hoshikos are the best thing since sliced bread.

Ok, so I go ahead and try out the little buggers. I'm cool with their repair abilities, so i can see their use, but my hoshikos seem to have a huge deathwish where they kamikaze charge towards the enemy to auto attack them, which unsurprisingly tends to get them killed. Then I try turning off the auto attack. The little buggers just sit there twiddling their thumbs while the rest of my ships get shot. Ok that was fun. So I try forming a fleet and having the cohesion set to all close, so that even if they're at the front of the battle line, then at least they don't go crusading solo against a solo defense turret running past all the enemies. That kinda worked, except, my fleet is now doing the "re-forming the fleet" dance all the time instead of attacking the enemy. I dislike using the fleet because of that. Well, I could micro them, but I do have other things to focus on besides baby-sitting my hoshikos, and i would really appreciate it if they had at least some autonomy.

So now comes the question: How do you keep your hoshikos from committing suicide?