1-2 Badniks a turn really doesn't sound like much. Not even as a force restoration upon losing some Badniks, considering we can just be attacked consecutive turns.
Maybe the raid would of failed, maybe not. I wouldn't know, given the vast majority of the Dark Arms Rolls were under 30, meaning that one of the Badnik Traits prevented damage.
Yes, we can be attacked by other factions outside of Zavok. That doesn't matter when a single factory at best makes 2 badniks. We'd be losing more than the single factory would be able to produce. So I repeat, you're gonna have to campaign on making many of them to get it to be convincing vs focusing on taking down Zavok so we just need to focus on repairing already existing Factories.
Getting viable ring power is going to take several turns of Brain Actions that we currently hardly have in my opinion. Until we get the N.I.D.S cured either via Gene Therapy or Cure Creation, the Rings would take two turns to even get close to starting to become a viable source of consistent use.