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				 Re: Defending Planets 
 You don't have huge sweeps?  Don't you lose a ton of ships?  I always have 5-10 mines above my planets to mess with people with no sweeps and usually quite a few mines on warp points to try to catch colony ships.  I always take a dread maxed out with my highest sweepers with a fleet.
 With the cargo bug, you can throw a good 160 mines above your homeworld, that can stop anything and usually even stops fleets with a lot of sweeps cuz they only plan for the 100 limit.
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