If someone is attacking an outpost with a navigator, and the defender has a thief launching at the last moment.. does the thief factor at all? Or is the launch disrupted and it does nothing?

If you try to launch any sub just less than 10 minutes before an enemy sub approaches, you won't be able to launch, it will be interrupted. The navigator is irrelevant, but rhe situation is, if you launch your thief defensively 11 minutes before the attack and the navigator hasn't rerouted even once, it will connect and clash with the enemy sub just before it arrives at your outpost.

This is what I thought, but couldn't test it. Cheers