2407.8 - Destroyed large Xi'Chung fleet with minimal damage. Headed to small breathable planet to create colony as base for securing the rest of the system.
I realize that I'm making way more resources than I'm using. So for I've just been building storage containers, but after reading some stuff on the forums, I'm now building 5 more space yards
2408.0 - Created colony in Xi'Chung system. Building a weapons platform, then a refueling station is next in the queue.
Warped 2nd fleet into Toltayan system - 44 mines swept - and am heading towards most populate planet, a tiny breathable.
2408.1 - Destroyed Toltayan breathable planet, along with a mine layer and four transport ships.
2408.2 - Yikes! A praetorian fleet of 5 battleships(!) and a few cruisers warps in and cleans out my defense. However, they take heavy damage from my missile sats. I send a carrier with fighters at them, which manages to destroy everything except for two BBs. One BB is heavily damaged, but the other BB is unharmed, and destroys my carrier and fighters without any significant damage. I have every planet in that system building fighters, for defense and to plug the warp point.
I glass another planet in the Toltayan system. This had a space yard, war shrine, and death shrine, but only had some space stations with missiles and a few missle weapons platforms guarding it. In the Xi'Chung system, I destroy a couple cruisers and a carrier that were near my colony.
I now have a level 2 hyper optics sat in nearly every system I control, so stealth armor cloaking should no longer be an issue.
2408.3 - Attempted to drive out the praetorian BB as well as a drushocka heavy cruiser that came through the warphole this turn. However, I get crushed. I don't have the staying power to get close enough to the long range weapons. I realize I'm rather behind in the tech race! I'll get fighers 2 next turn, hopefully that will help to some extent.
Warp through to another toltayan system, looking for better targets. Notice they have ice colonizers now, as there is an huge oxygen ice planet they have colonized. I will wait at the warp point to take care of any ships that follow me, and attempt to glass it next turn.
2408.4 - Luckily, the praetorian bb is going back, either to refuel or to fight elsewhere. The drushocka heavy cruiser is trying to go through another warp point, but I've reinfoced that and hopefully it will hold. However the troops are on the entrance side.
2408.5 - The drushocka cruiser takes the bait and is destroyed at the warp point
I glass the toltayan extra huge ice planet (I forgot the turn before)
2408.7 - Drushocka has been sendin drones through fairly regularly, but now they come in with a small fleet, through the same warp point that the praetorian fleet came in. They are possibly allied. I dispatch the fleet but do wind up taking some damage.
2408.9 - The 2nd Xi'Chung system is a mess. The praetorians, the Xi'Chung, and I all have a colony. Lots of ships have met their fate there. I'm having trouble reinforcing my own fleet due to pressure at other warp points from the drushocka and praetorian.
On the other side of the map, I'm returning the toltayan fleet for retrofitting. I have another smaller fleet in the system now. After some retrofitting, I should be able to blockade that system off and colonize it.
Building fighers and cruisers like crazy. Running a large mineral deficit, but I'll have minerals 2 researched in another 2 turns, which will hopefully help.
Research:
Advanced Military Science 4
Planetary Utilization 3
Fighters 2
Stellar Manipulation 1
Ship Construction 5
Organic Weapons 4
Deep Space Mining 1
Mineral Extraction 2
Stellar Harnessing 3
Combat Support 2