Thank you very much! Right now I'm trying to figure out my next set of thargoid experiments. The biggest thing I've noted is the data on the Wiki about the content of the NHSS seems wrong. Or out of date, and seems highly area dependent, meaning the encounters for the same numbers I have around Maia seem different than the encounters I have in the hostile areas in the core bubble.
But if others have ideas I am very much open to them. Research is the goal!
I tried a repair limpet on a scout - by accident, thought. Still had the fire group set to the controller active when I started attacking the scout, so the limpet hit it instead of my multis. Same results as with the interceptors in the excellent research in the OP.