Pilgrimager

[sorry for the necro, but they is a pretty prominent search result which gives a false sense of security (in my experience)] In the OP there's a claim that if you clear a sector and leave your fleet there, it will be safe. I tried that and my fleet ships were quickly attacked by a Persecutor fleet while I was out of the sector. I jumped back in, and was hailed by the fleet to pay up or they would destroy my fleet ship. I refused so they lobbed torps at my fleet ship even while I was engaging them in combat. This happened twice, the first time I killed the Persecutor fleet while my fleet ship hid fortuitously behind an asteroid. The second time, they killed my ship. I'm not sure whether leaving a combat ship in the sector would keep this from happening. It seems like the game sees my poor little miner and decides it doesn't deserve to be so far in towards the core (I'm only at trinium).