You need to be a subscriber, join up and you'll probably get in ,in the next wave. I traded in a ship and got a bunch of junk for my hanger; that may help too. And, thanks for the heads up Murderer.
We could enforce safe zones for anyone to refuel, be they pirate or prince. After all, the true winners in war are the arms merchants. That's the only way, short of fleet support, that I would captain one of those flying bombs!
You do have a great talent, though. I particularly like the one by Queen! See if you could come up with one for Ride of the Valkyries and it could be our battle hymn:
I see fleets of Auroras rushing to their certain doom................