[Strategia_In_Ultima]

14. While you're struggling to get a decent economy, an enemy star destroyer suddenly decloaks above your homeworld star.
15. You build your first colony ship and send it on its way, 1. happens just as the ship exits a warp point into another system and an enemy uses a Cargo Bomb project on you.
16. You have a massive empire with a slightly declining economy and a moderate fleet, and then suddenly everyone declares you Mega Evil and starts to churn out Star Destroyers.

edit: corrected numbers as Fyron beat me to the first reply