2 ships vs 5 fresh iconians + one damaged one
yeah i don't think our allies have a death wish
and the iconians are probably not stupid anymore and would break up their fleet to engage you.
what we need to do is somehow draw them out one by one and pick them off. dodging through the asteroid field could allow that, and if we need to make a quick getaway we could just warp out using the asteroids as cover.
im saying our two ships distract them, not go head on with them. as in pretty much do exactly what your saying we do, we can have them split up and they can just lead the iconians through the asteroid field. the iconians wont be stupid enough to keep sending ONE ship after three enemy ships, we would get wrecked. not to mention that gives them MORE time to call in more ships, which is bad.
at the very least im guessing we can at least wreck one mining station, and then get to the other one and do a bit of damage before we encounter another iconian ship.