Yes, naturally individual ships can steal past now and then.
There's also the matter of the patrol range of the individual ship.
The most obvious is the chain of command on board an individual ship.
Within that vast fleet, however, the individual ships each have their own special character.
He led the march back to their individual ships.
On the other hand, units are typically individual ships, each with its own combat rating.
They were utterly disorganized, to the level of individual ships.
"I'll need to tap the station to get into the individual ships."
As a real-time strategy game, players are allowed to control individual ships and planes.
I think the individual ships must have turned separately.