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==== You now have a full toolbox of fortress modes: ====
# Solo sub-forts (75% main power) - Great for: - Patrolling, - Sweeping moderately infested regions, - Rapid response.
# Packs of 10 sub-forts - Great for: - Strong, flexible strike forces, - Handling serious hives, - Maintaining mutual defense.
# Combined mega-fortresses (10 sub-forts merged) - Great for: - Ultra-dense swarm super-clusters, - Final assaults on massive hive-nodes, - “We want this region deleted from the map” operations.

Strategically:
* You send solo/pack fortresses everywhere, pushing back infection.
* When they find a mega-hive: - They call in others, - Combine into a mega-fort or even multiple mega-forts, - Drop an absolutely ridiculous amount of: - BHs, - Atomizers, - Star-core nukes, - Kinetic/railgun fire, - Then split back into packs for follow-up cleanup and patrol.

===== Letting sub-fortresses combine into bigger fortresses turns your fleet into: =====
* A modular system that can: - Spread out for coverage, - Or fuse into super-fortresses for mega-siege.

Against a universe-sized, self-replicating swarm, this is exactly the kind of flexibility you’d want:
* Many fortresses for hunting and containment,
* Fused fortresses for deleting the truly monstrous swarm concentrations in one overwhelming blow.