the pirates seem to want to follow you across every sector you go through, so you are being mugged by everything you went past to get to brennans triumph, personally i always thought that would of ended up a goner area, with various races helping them be defended, just so they can get information from the gate....
Also capturing yourself a larger ship in a m5 is harder by far, energy runs out too quick to make it through the 8mw shields, but other than keep being shot trying to do the brennans triumph mission, things are not much harder, oh yes, what happened to the atreus clouds west gate to argon space?
Cmdr Gomorragh - Stares at players, just waiting ......