How do you neutralize the new star bases?

[KiloZulu]

A friend of mine was building his space station and asked me for help when he started getting overrun by pirate Isanths. I showed up with one of my cruisers and figured out that it was because he was too close to a pirate station, after wave after wave of Isanth's kept appearing.

I flew over and fired at the icon that "I thought" denoted the ship core or faction core location for the base. It wasn't there. I commenced to completely core the station, and it still didn't drop its faction or stop calling in pirates. I finally just gutted the thing, leaving a tangle of blasted hull bits and girders. It still was calling fighters. We eventually just had to abandon the area.

 

[starhaiden]

faction homebase are invincible and if you part turrets on the station than it should help with the pirate problem.

 

[Mariux]

The faction block modules are not where the pirate station's target is, so you might have to look for it in build mode.

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

Whats the station name? I've found the faction module on several of them already. I was going to do a take down video for Alpha today but unfortunately I don't actually have any functioning ships that can do so. Alpha has twice the shield chargers as capacitors so it's recharge rate is insane even while "under fire"

 

[KiloZulu]

Whats the station name? I've found the faction module on several of them already. I was going to do a take down video for Alpha today but unfortunately I don't actually have any functioning ships that can do so. Alpha has twice the shield chargers as capacitors so it's recharge rate is insane even while "under fire"

It would be the Hub Station by Vanhelzing *shake fist at Van*, but knowing all of the pirate faction module locations would be beneficial, since my own sector is 90% pirate base and I need to start clearing them out so I can have some peace and quiet while I mine.

 

[Lidren]

Carefully, with high explosive missiles, from extreme range.

 

[KiloZulu]

Carefully, with high explosive missiles, from extreme range.

That's exactly what I did...minus the "carefully." I returned with a small ship of mine that is armed with half a dozen multiple-warhead heat-seeking missile launchers and evaporated the base.

I finally found the faction block.