Nice analogy, right? And, unlike much of what's floating around, the account of what the meta-vaccine does is right.
But...
As a character in an S. Harris cartoon once remarked, "I think you should be more explicit here in Step Two."
So where's the great, unsupported leap here?
Ah. Your immune system doesn't "learn", as such. You can't teach it new tricks, only train it to recognize new foes.
Ergo, the "thermal exhaust port" trick ain't happening. A vaccine primes your immune system to launch its standard dumb swarm attack against a new threat, not to do something smart and novel about the threat.
So, no matter how many unarmed training Death Stars you throw at the rebel base, it will always respond with swarm attacks. After the first one, it'll respond faster. And, as long as the Death Stars are unarmed, it'll eventually manage to destroy them, bit by bit.
When a fully armed and operational Death Star turns up, the rebel base is still doomed, because the swarm attack doesn't work against a defended Death Star, at least not fast enough to keep it from zapping your planet out of existence.
On the other hand, going back to a better analogy, this training might be useful if a construction crew shows up in your system with a set of Death Star blueprints and starts building. Swarm it quick, and you can eliminate it before it becomes a threat. (This, kids, is why we have a vaccine against measles, but no vaccine against trains.)
Another thing to ponder: what happens if the Empire seeds your system with cheap Death Star balloons? Will you exhaust all your resources swarming them, just because that's how your defense forces have trained?
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