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===== - The swarm keeps: - Testing your defenses - Mutating around them - Devouring and recombining to amplify the best counters =====

Over enough cycles, they can plausibly evolve:
* Better dodging vs your specific aim patterns
* Armor tuned to your impact energies
* Tactics that exploit your slowest response sectors

Eventually, the probability that some evolved form can slip through and actually harm your array goes up and up.

Given infinite time and mutation, a static defense almost always loses to a learning attacker.

===== Then it becomes a true arms race: =====
* They mutate → you change targeting logic
* They specialize → you add new firing modes
* They develop EM interference → you shift sensors, add redundancy
* They change geometry → you revise your formation, maybe add decoy platforms or drone screens

In this case:

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But your starting point (10 relativistic mega-guns with infinite ammo) is so insane that:
* At least early on, you’ve got a big advantage.
* Mutation mostly stops it from being a one-sided massacre, and turns it into a long evolving war.