Sanity check:
10 sector range?
That won't get you across your homesystem, never mind trying to colonize.
Even if you managed to build a resupply depot on a colony in the enemy's system you still couldn't carry enough ammo to the battle...
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Unless you want the slow-research races to have a larger tech deficit at first contact, which won't occur until engine tech improves drastically.
PS:
SF probably isn't a good modname abbreviation, as to a lot of people around here it stands for StarFury
[ August 05, 2004, 17:45: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]