Pets getting left behind

I thought this issue had been fixed some time ago, but either it wasn't or it has come back. I am losing entire squadrons of pets because they cannot keep up with my ship and I'm only using level XII Very Rare engines as I haven't upgraded to the Reputation set yet. But In Azure Nebula Rescue my pets are being left behind and just vanishing just going from one asteroid to the next. And no they are not being destroyed by the middle enemy ships near the spawn point. I've actually turned my camera to view my pets and they fall further and further behind and then the whole squadron is gone.

I'm dreading how many I'll lose one I get a full engine rep set and level it up to gold XV. It takes forever to launch these squadrons yet they vanish in the blink of an eye because they can't keep up with level XII engines. I am sure I read a couple of years ago a fix that stopped this from happening, well it seems to be happening again and I would appreciate it if it could be fixed again. I spent a lot of Dilithium to acquire the Ultra Rare version of the pets and equip them only to find they are not there when I join the battle. I'm sure I'm not the only one that this happens to.

One other thing I'd like to mention is any map where there are micro asteroids like the mission Enemy Mine, my pets get destroyed flying though there, I know there is only the one battle, but seriously, the pilots of my pet ships are so bad they can't fly through micro asteroids, yet my gigantic ship flies through no problem. This happens on other maps with these smaller asteroids as well, but Enemy Mine is the one I can remember at this time.