back in the day the Tholioan had some huge planet protecting #s, but was stupid due to you could just attack the ship first..

I see new much better guardian ships in some of the new game edits.

Question... is it still stupid to sit in the sector in a guardian ship?
Any chance the ship helps any if the trader is parked inside the citadel/on planet?

It depends but yes most of the time it's not a great move to sit afk in the sector in a guardian ship. It works (sometimes) to run a reloader or have a corpie do it but again they can be beat.

No it doesn't help it acts as any other ship. the planet will get taken and once claimed they may evict you and then kill you.

TY, i was thinking the same thing.