Trying to grind bots for heavy weapons xp today, i found... none! Deneb shows lots of sectors with various different hive bots listed, but none of them are there. At most i found an Itani or Serco owned turret.

I'm pretty sure i've run into hive bots in Deneb before.

I think Deneb is part of the dynamic hive system now - or rather one of systems where it potentially can expand. Therefore the map notes on bots is no longer accurate. This exact thing happened to systems in greyspace when dynamic hives were introduced.

Deneb is not dynamic hive space. It is the site of the itani/serco border-patrol missions. I'm not sure about the actual presence or lack of about bots, but if there are none the 'bots sighted' list needs changing..

The 'sighted bots' info was never meant to be perfectly accurate. For example, there are many sectors that have bots in them but aren't labeled as such in the navmap.