OP here, I decided to stop waiting for C# and just play some more.
>Make a tiny flotilla of 5 missile frigates and start a training exercise
>Forget about it, assume it's just some modifiers
>Notice they're sitting between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
>Check it out, they can't move
>After 30 minutes of fiddling with shit I figure out two have engine failures, one of which manages to repair it
>Scuttle the last ship, barely rescue the survivors due to a lack of craft
All in all they lived 5 years in ships supplied for 6 month deployments.
And it all makes sense logically, as my empire is called the USSR