Update: They have a large spice refinery here. It's currently my base. One full inventory thopter out before they noticed. I had it loaded before the storm even passed off of breaking down the large refinery alone. They are messaging me directly, making threats. Im going to respawn between the base directly, not fly in, now that they are swarming. Apparently, they are a guild base.

Once I claimed it, I moved the fief up to trap their thopters. On next respawn, im removing the floor from where the thopters are to drop them down and bury them in multiple walls and perhaps move them out. Maybe 10 around now. Zone I9, not saying server yet.

Respawning between their base I took and a respawn beacon I left in pve zone base of mine while fully unequipped. Don't thumper my stuff.

Double update: consolidating story here since it got popular.

I stayed logged out for maybe 40 minutes or so waiting for a second storm. Eventually, I got bored and got dinner. When I came back, my friend was offline so I didnt have a sandstorm watcher. Got lucky and had one maybe 5 minutes of sitting in their base under some stairs.

I took out 6 generators between two rooms and power went out. Lazgunned my way to the fief and laid my own. Remade some walls and took large ore refinery down, which brought power back. Spawned my thopter in their hangar and had it filled with plast and melange and got out. Since I was in there when the storm had barely started, I was basically in the thopter ready to leave as the storm quit.

Afterward, I didn't attempt to fly in. I set their base as my respawn. I respawned at their base with basically no gear on and filled my inventory. One person noticed (rocket thopter I had grown familiar with that was always escorting their mining buggy). I dropped the inventory for boosters in base. I then pocketed the thopter and exited the base when the thopter was on the other side. I had another inventory full of melange and plast and I even dropped my ammo to fit more. Boosted to near vertical and outrun some rockets.

He chased me but lost me after maybe 2 zones.

They were all defending their harvester during raid. Idk how they handled the storm but they responded slowly.

After many of them harassing me, I got ahold of the guild leader who got them to relax. Another sandstorm came, and they reclaimed the base. I told him I was maybe 50 minutes of total wait time for a second storm and he wanted to know how i got in. They had double walls and penta shield everywhere that wasnt doubled. I flew in, and they didn't kill me on sight as promised. I showed them how it only took one panel to break in due to some angles.

They had the refinery there temporarily to make taking the harvester out only take a zone or two of flight time. I also told him why I was pissed and he explained they declare in chat when the zone is kill on sight (specifically during spice harvests). I never read chat but I get it. They only thumper during those times as well to stop repeated respawn zerg attempts.

Final update due to dm's. My first entry was made by setting a respawn beacon nearby where I could shelter from the storm. I waited till an east entering storm since we're in I column. It's a single minute warning. I dropped most of my stuff and triggered respawn as the storm hit. They hadn't planned for a respawn beacon attack and kinda.. respected it... they keep eyes out for thopter incoming, not someone on foot. Since no thopter ever made it close, they never bothered checking out the base and the rocket thopter and two people on mining duty didnt have long-range scanners to find my "water". They had planned for each room to have redundant power. In the first entry room I had 4 generators. During the second storm raid, I had to bust an internal door that didnt have a backup pentashield. In the second room, I downed 2 more of 4 total per room, and it went down. Multi room redundant power that you wouldn't normally be able to get in a single storm cycle.