Aethus

Yep that fixed it.

The Advent Starbase's Meteor Storm doesn't work at the moment. Instead the starbase will gyrate wildly trying to target an enemy ship and will never actually cast it. EDIT: It started working after I toggled the auto-cast on then off again. The starbase is still at a bizzare angle.

In a singleplayer game, I was playing as TEC Rebels and had researched the Pirate Mercs tech. One of my Loyalist foes had Novalith'd the Pirate Base. So I went over to it an colonized it. And what was my reward? Endless "threats" from the local pirate forces (who I of course, could not kill). Worse though, was the pirate theme music (the little tune that plays when they show up to wreck your stuff) PLAYING EVERY 15 SECONDS. IT KEEPS HAPPENING. <p

As an Advent player Allquixotic, I am very opposed to the bypassing shield bit of your idea.