A fighter escort usually arrives with a bomber wing, i bomber wing called Alpha, and a fighter wing or two can take out the anti-warship beams of a sathanas, Alpha 1 could probably take out the anti-warship beams in 30-45 min (very easy difficulty{estimate, could be 15}), while the rest of the wing could do minor hull damage and the fighters could take out shivan fighters (strangely enough, if alpha 1 is busy against a capital ship, the shivan fighters don't take up much of his time), once the main beams are gone, move onto another sathanas, the GTVA has more than 3 wings though and that could take on other Sathanaseseses (what's the plural). After a while, at least a couple of hours of Sathanaseseses would be done and the warships could come in and beam them (I love sobeks, they are really good). Fighters could take on enemy fighters and bombers.
Though still... Not to mention Alpha 1 is as good as 30 other pilots. Though that lieutanant guy when we were taking on the Comm nodes was pretty good, that wing was.
The Psamtic was taken by suprise, it was facing all four beams and was already damaged by other warships and bombers
The Phonecia will survive if you hit one of the Sathanas beams with one or two double trebuchets.
The colossus took minimal damage when up against the first sathanas, but the clip after said 20% damage, that would take months to repair!
What other warships were lost to Sathanas
After all that explination, i still don't think so, 80 sathanas were sighted, hundreds more may have been en-route. Alpha 1 eventually runs down on htps, facing a couple of Sathanas would be alright, but AAA hit here and there and fighters can do some damage, Alpha 1 destroyed after maybe 10 or less disablings of beams.
To the final question, nah, don't think so.
