Khaak in Nopileos Fortune

[Blech]

I initialiy found Nopileos fortune II to be nice and quiet and used it for mining. After i set up shop and took over the sector however. I have at least 7-8 Khaak fighters contantly swarming around no matter how many i destroy. I have a few questions about this.
First of all, do they spawn from a base, or just by magic? I have set up over 30 advanced sats and i haven't really been able to find a general direction they are comming from and the sector is bloody huge.
Second of all, would anyone happen to know the location of khaak stations in the sector?
And lastly, is there a way to stop or control the constant flow of khaak? I have a few squads of gunboats patrolling but they don't really seem to be in a hurry to rush and help my mining ships, they just slowly fly around doing as little as possible.

[Ebyl]

Kha'ak activity in a sector should be much higher if there is a station. I'm pretty sure that's what the first reply was referring to. Sudden increase in Kha'ak activity typically means a station in the sector, so you need to explore out to find it and kill it.

[blackphoenixx]

To protect your miners either place a couple of fighters on protect position around your mining site or set up a patrol with repeat orders + attack enemies in range.

Any L miner can tank your basic khaak swarm pretty much forever so you can just set them to ignore attacks and they'll keep mining until your reinforcements arrive.
You just need to get rid of the khaak for them to use their travel drive.

Combine the two and even a huge sector like Nopelios' Fortune can be kept reasonably clean by 2-3 fast frigates or 12-18 interceptors (in groups of six).

Perseus with shard batteries do pretty well for me against khaak and xenon with high killing speed IS and OOS and very low losses.
They're also reasonably cheap so the cost ends up about the same either way.

Unfortunately i've had no luck getting my L miners to actually kill khaak themselves, no matter what weapons i give them.

[Harrison]

Originally posted by Blech:

Does anyone know if the Khaak spawn from stations or do they just magic into existance?

First one, then the other.

The stations are magicked into existence in the sector. Ships are magicked into existence in the vicinity of the station before moving to attack stuff, they also come in in waves to defend the station when you attack it.

If you destroy the station, the ships stop appearing (at least in my experience).

[Blech]

I have been dropping advanced sats on the spot the khaak spawn every time i see them. The idea would be that is would produce a line of sats over time pointing to their spawn points. And now I have a lot of sats, and I can say that they seem to magic into existance, at least in Nopileos Fortune. The Khaak appear right next to my outermost sats, but it seems like they spawn in the same 4-5 places every time. If they keep spawning next to my sats, I will be setting up defence stations at the spawn points.

In my game, Khaak constantly spawn in Nopileos fortune, no matter if I'm in the area or not.
10-15 Khaak ships will quickly accumulate. So it would be nice if someone maybe know enough about the spawning mechanics to tell me how i poked the nest this badly? Is it the mining that spawns them? I'm not mining nvidium.