anyone could do it. if you're willing to sacrafice seige ships to take out the base, and potentially a cap ship to go in and colonise. if you could arrange to only take out the pillagers, you could even have a fleet of pirates to help too.
[quote who="runesia" reply="32" id="2546874"] 1 thing about pirates: they're not humans who will chase ur fleet if u decided to call it a retreat (after killing many but not all pirates)from their base sometimes intercepting a surviving raid party before its returns to its base is somewhat beneficial[/quote] I would but this was going on in another starsystem, I didn't know about it until it was too late. I'd have no problem with the jumping in killing some and retreat
the only problem I have with the pirates, is that they scale up to such an insane degree. my game is slowing down, it's not just the pirates but they are becoming quite a problem. because the last pirate base is impossible to attack. there are hundreds of pirate ships that have returned from raids, and are just sitting around this base. how can I defeat hundreds of pirate ships, that are superior in every way to my own ships. I can fight off any raid they mount, but when they raid any of the
