Just Last night I designed a "siege engine", which is built specifically to blockade small AI planets. (NOT spaceyard worlds=-)
I put one contra-terrene engine, a little armour and a few point defence weapons (to take out fighters & satellites) onto an escort hull.
Speed is not really important since they are only intended to sit in orbit around a single planet.
For that reason I restricted it to one engine to keep the cost down - Each ships costs less than 2000 minerals, so they are low maintenence and I can produce them one per turn at a planetary spaceyard, or one every other turn at a mobile spaceyard.
You know it's hard work being a G-
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