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There is no way I can get protection from these attacks because groups of heliotrope gunships will find me right in the middle of space when I'm far from any friendly stations or ships. They are too fast to be outrun and too powerful to be outfought and I can only use sustain so many times to get so far. I barely managed to survive one strike by sustaining and just barely getting to a nearby nomad which kindly destroyed them, only to get shot down by more heliotropes five minutes later while traveling to a planet
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I'm thinking that they should be changed to only appear later in the game, they are still worthy opponents later on in the game way beyond St. K's, or perhaps their gunships could have their firepower decreased. Or perhaps I'm missing something entirely here and there is a viable way to atleast save yourself from these monsters.