If that is half the murphy plunkett fleet then, WTF has Confed been doing. It must need a hell of alot more cruisers and destroyers than that. I guess they can still use surplus Tallahassee and WCIV destroyers (don't remeber name, perhaps Terminator) until they get more of the newer ones, but remember if confed is like 1000 systems large (which someone has said) you need a reletivly large number of ships to be able to protect the systems.
Also I said hades for several reasons, by recon I mean a recon in force a system in either direction, for prolonged periods of time, not something a fighter can do that easily. Plus I would want a ship that is capable of fighting long enough to give me fair warning. And another reason I said hades is that it is the only light carrier (or anything close to it) that I know of that is currently in service, any light carrier would do for what I wish.