Re: First turns Research and builds.
50 turns?!
That's a long long time...
You'll want to get ship construction up to Light Cruisers fairly fast, just for the large mounts.
You can max out your DUC research in a few turns, and that will be good enough until you get around to researching APB or PPB.
Grab some shields, CS/ECM, and some training facilities, and you should be good to go.
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