another quiestion

[moondog777]

How do you keep from going broke? I mean if you build any kind of defense at all just the maintence alone will bankrupt you.
the only way i can see to avoid this is to keep expanding your colonies and building minerial colonies.... but sooner or later your gonna run out of places to build, then that's not even looking at when you get into a war with someone and have to start building fleets!