It was alot of fun, I definitely would like to do more, but in the future we should have some changes. However I do not believe we had problems with Communications, more like keeping the traders in line. However what I would suggest is.
-Each faction groups with their traders, and the leaders relay messages to the others, to avoid confusion. Or just all stay grouped.
-Even numbers, that was way out of hand. we got absolutely ganked, even though that is what would happen, there were way too many hostiles to friendly fighters. That either means we need to increase escorts, which I am against, or decrease the number of hostiles/hostiles per encounter.
Those are the only problems I really saw, but otherwise Kudos, especially to that repair ship, and the escorts.