Question about the Zya faction storyline

[Of The Dead]

I am kinda new to X4, but not to the series as a whole, so I sorta/kinda know what I am doing.

So my question; Is it normal for the Zya to just get utterly obliterated very early by Xenon? I ask, since I was doing the Spear of the Patriach on my second playthrough. While my first playthrough I was doing a Vigor Syndicate run, but by the time I got to the Split territories to explore them proper, the Zya were just gone. Like totally. You have Xenon where they were supposed to be. And the ARG fighting the Xenon.

So second attempt, I went with Spear of the Patriarch, and within two hours, I noticed while questing, that a Xenon I, and around 5 Ks all jumped into Zyarth's Dominion I, and just proceeded to wreck the place. Within half an hour, the whole sector was basically gone. And now they are pushing into Family Nhuut.

All that within 2 hours, I have not really even got enough funds yet to start mining proper, let alone attempt stations to help with supplies. Is it even possible to do the Zya faction story? Or do they just always get obliterated.

Seems they are in a really crap position on the system charts. With Xenon on 2 sides, and the ARG fighting them on another. And they don't have a lot of allies either.

[Lazarus Long]

The Split sectors are prone to Xenon raids, yes. Also they don't have a strong wares transport fleet and if they loose ships the fall behind fast. If you can feed their shipyards and wharves with goods from the Teladi and Paranid they do much better though.

[Wraith]

They are overstretched at the beginning ZYA is the only split faction with military that have to defend themselves and Free Family (who can't field military as they lost that right to ZYA)

ZYA can take a few losses of sector the key important thing is for them to have the resource and centralization to keep the enemy back

What I usually do is rush the plotline for Split and support the rebel but only to a certain point.

This will allow ZYA to no longer need to defend Free Family space and once you help them recover their military might you will notice that suddenly they can defend themselves really well (it almost like they don't have to travel constantly to Free Family to kill Xenon)

[Pandorian]

The main issue with ZYA space is they are flanked on multiple sides by Xenon, are at war with Argon, and have to deal with internal disputes until you finish the general Split story line.

When I did the Spear of Patriarch secondary missions I was able to do it fairly easily back before they had the dedicated Raptor shipyard.

Tips to do it quickly/easily:
First traders go to filling the Wharf/Shipyard with needed wares(probably Hull Parts)
Next traders support that line by transporting Refined Metals to Hull Parts
Next miners support any lacking Refined Metals stations
In my game Xenon primarily attacked Zyarth's Dominion I so I just sat there and sniped ships as they came through as I was waiting on things to happen. The main thing you want to focus on is destroying any mining ships you see.

Now the next part is cheesy but technically fulfills the requirements, and technically correct is the best kind of correct :D

Don't actually piss off Argon
Buy an admin module blueprint and build one in Eleventh Hour, Guiding Star VII, and Guiding Star V
Now for completion of the Spear of Patriarchy it's good enough if Argon doesn't own those sectors anymore. So what you can do is snipe out the admin modules from their defense stations so that control falls to you. I used the Rattlesnakes to do this.
You might get a -1 reputation for unathorized kill but if you've been trading in that area to funnel resources to ZYA then you can handle a -1 fairly easily. If all else fails just destroy some criminal traffic.