They hide very well. :E
Alright, EV 1.0.5. I'm doing the Confed string and I just got a mission from a Confed Officer. It's the one where he says Confed listening posts have picked up info from Rebel comms about a fleet being built up somewhere, and I have to go find it and return to New Britain with information on their location.
So I picked up a scoutship and explored every Rebel and Independent system by looking at a completely explored map on my other pilot, and I've searched every uninhabited system between Rebel, Independent, and Confed space and found no fleet.
Am I missing something? Are they perhaps in a Pirate system or one of the outer dead-end "strings" of uninhabited systems around the fringes? Do I have to land somewhere and pick up information about their whereabouts before I can find the fleet anywhere?