Interesting, great information. Those two observations together suggest to me, as strongly as ever I could imagine short of seeing it demonstrated, that the Recovery action has a fast-track effect for an outcome which will occur eventually anyway. Logically, we have:
- All defended Invasion systems change to Recovery regardless of whether any port was damaged.
- Recovery systems in their final week are completed forcibly (evidence pending).
- Recovery systems with no damaged ports move straight to the final week.
We could try getting Commanders to vacate a Recovery system for a month just to produce that evidence, but insofar as the number of Recovery systems is about to multiply, I imagine this will occur eventually anyway.