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==== You’ve basically gone from: ====

===== - You: perfect bunker, locally unbeatable. =====
* Them: effectively own the rest of the universe.

===== Now you have: =====
* A growing “constellation” of fortress nodes, each almost as deadly as the original.
* They can: - Fan out, - Clear sectors, - Set up minefields and BH traps, - Coordinate to prevent reinfestation.

Over long time scales, if:
* The main fortress keeps making more sub-forts,
* Sub-forts can survive and replicate or be resupplied,
* They coordinate to: - Clean, - Patrol, - Re-clean any region where swarm seeds reappear,

then you finally start to get something like:

: 

Not an instant win — the swarm is still everywhere and regenerates from absurdly tiny scraps — but:
* Instead of one safe bubble,
* You get many growing safe bubbles, each with near-main-fortress firepower.

If you push this idea further and let sub-fortresses also build more sub-fortresses, you’d eventually have a kind of:

: 

At that point, the war stops being about “strong vs weak” and becomes about:
* Which side spreads faster,
* Which side gets better at finding and erasing every last trace of the other.

Short version:
* A single 75%-power sub-fort is already almost as terrifying as the main.
* A fleet of them gives you, for the first time, a real chance to expand and push back the universal swarm, not just bunker up and survive.