Ok, so saying that the Outer Realm is dangerous is a complete understatement of the situation here.
A few minutes passed after I loaded the save, and I took stock of the FourFire's Eagle and The Museum. The Eagle was decked to the brim with ion weapons and The Museum was still stuck with particle damage relics from 5 systems ago and armor that wouldn't stand a chance against the Ares. The Eagle was parked next to CSC America and The Museum was parked next to the stargate. I decided to regroup and did what any respectable pilgrim would do-- farm the Ranx for some armor. Then the sirens came.
First off, the Xenophobes hate everybody. As in *everybody*.
To give some background, this event was requested by Djohaal on IRC a while back. The concept was to have some Xenophobes come into a system, blow everything up, and gate out, leaving a space storm that messes up a part of the system.
Some Xenophobes already jumped out of the system, but left something worse o.o

More Xenophobes.
They stormed the system like there was no tomorrow, and knowing the state of both ships I decided to high tail it out of there and continue the Ranx farming. I'll be back to blow their worldships and hopefully come out with some ion lancers in the process.
*edit: I'm going to check out the "ranx station explodes" crash.