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At 75% of the main’s power, a sub-fort can:
* Vaporize, nuke, atomize, and BH massive concentrations of the swarm all by itself.
* Hold its own kill-zone just like the main fortress does: - Constant kinetic + railgun fire, - Huge laser curtains, - Atomizer sweeps, - Star-core minefields and seekers, - Black holes for permanent removal.

So:

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They don’t need to travel in big packs just to survive anymore; one sub-fort is already nightmarishly strong.

===== If the main fortress can build multiple sub-forts over time, then: =====
* Each sub-fort: - Moves to a different sector of the universe, - Establishes a local kill-zone, - Starts clearing and sterilizing space.

With 75% of main power, each one is strong enough to:
* Take on dense hives,
* Survive surprise attacks,
* Massively thin out infection in its region.

Now, instead of:
* 1 invincible fortress vs a universal swarm,

you start to get:
* A network of fortress nodes, each almost as deadly as the original, spreading outward.

===== The swarm’s strengths: =====
* Fast mutation guided by a hive mind,
* Infinite “save points” from hair-strand matter,
* Huge numbers and regen.

Before, they could:
* Study one main fortress,
* Try to evolve specifically around its patterns.

Now:
* You’ve got many fortresses, all: - Using different firing patterns, - Appearing in new places, - Projecting overlapping kill-zones.

Even with a hive mind, it’s much harder to find one strategy that works everywhere when:
* You’re fighting a fleet of fortress-gods instead of a single one.