Hey all!  Got a bit of an epic CPU skirmish on the go at the moment.  It's sorta mid-late game, I'm playing as TEC and have 4 or 5 Novaliths.  I've been hammering away at a Vasari faction for most of the game (no idea what the other 3 are up to...I expect I'll find out soon enough), I'd pushed them back into the corner of the system and I found their homeworld, plus what looked to be their only other big/well developed system.  So I fired 2 Novaliths at one, and 2 at the other.  My question is...if they have starbases in their system, can they counter the effects of bombardment by Novalith?  I don't know if the Vasari or Advent have anything like the Auxilliary Government ability as I tend to play TEC at the mo.  But I figured something must be protecting them from my Novas as they didn't surrender (I would!) and their fleet capabilities don't seem to be affected.

I'm hoping I don't need to go in there and mop up their starbases first as they seem to ice my fleet pretty easily.    And I've kind of stretched myself reeeally thin and left my core systems unguarded.  I'd build more but it's a randomly generated system and it's almost entirely crystal.  So I'm minted...but poor at the same time!

Cheers