I was asking the staff what they thought was reasonable, since this is a game(so it is only reasonable to be able to bring in reinforcements).
It's also only reasonable that the aggressor should be able to assume that forces won't arrive from the other side of the galaxy in two or three posts, essentially six or seven minutes.
If you want to get realistic, going by SW standards I could have blasted each of your ships with two waves of 40 torps and destroyed them all.
Realistic would be where you don't even have any torpedoes, because your government can't afford to pay for military expenditures with all the free food, housing, education, healthcare and other niceties you are giving to your people, who by the way, are in a constant state of revolt because you tax them 90% of their income.