The Defense Grid system will monitor every sector the player has a factory in for enemies. ADS Compatible stations will still send squadrons to defend their own sectors, but in addition, ships you have linked to the grid will jump to defend endangered sectors. In any case, an ECS event will be added in the ADS logbook.

Any player owned big ship can be linked to the Grid: M6, M7, M2, M1, TL.

When called to defend a sector they will interrupt any current task to jump and protect the sector. When the enemy has been dealt with, the ships will resume previous orders. If you have a M2 patrolling in Argon Prime and an alert is occurring in Ore Belt, it will jump to Ore Belt, kill the enemies, jump back to Argon Prime and resume patrol.