Keith, any chance of making the AI a little less fill carrier happy when you have forces on a planet? I don't have good saves for it, but often I will fly my fallen spire fleet in, shoot at the Special forces poping several Carriers, and the AI response is to put every ship right back into a Carrier on the same planet until I am facing nothing but MKV guardians as it can't condense it anymore. And very often they will just hop back in a carrier after I killed just a few of them.