Yeah, but when it converts to your side, the pirates immediately bomb it into oblivion. But you DO get the 3.5 for about 2 minutes, tho, depending on how many bombers they have handy.
pek
Why not just destroy their ships?
Can't get there in time to do anything, the amount of warning you get when you see the flashing corona isn't enough to put together a task force and gallop to the rescue, since it's in the star's gravity well and travel times are a lot longer through there. Of course, I could reload the last save since I know what's going to happen and pre-position forces. I was trying the culture attack out as an experiment and wasn't really ready for the pirate asteroid to come over to my side. I did win that game by culture, it was very strange to win with only 3 cap ships and NO other ships. The luck of the draw was I was able to sneak into a choke point planet that had an armaments test range (?) with 45 tactical points, I was able to buy off the pirates for a while while I built up that planet (14 squads + 10 gauss cannon), then I had just one other asteroid that linked to the star where I put 8 squads and my caps (1 Kol to start, then 1 more Kol then last a Karza), let them ramp up the experience points (had them all at 10 by the end)eradicating the pirates and while I was doing that I put 3 broadcasters at the choke point planet and let my obviously superior culture run it's course.
pek
