Strategic Help required!

[Suicide Junkie]

OK. heres the situation.

I control six systems, two of which have planets in them. I have one trinary system I'm hoping to develop, and 3 asteroid systems.

I have no friends in the galaxy, but the two guys I met are at war with each other.
Unfortunately, I have LCs, while everybody else has Dreadnaughts running around in packs of 9+.

Technology:
16k research points available.

-shields level two,
-armor 3,
-planet util is 3 turns from lvl 6,
-weapon destroyers lvl 5.
-DUC lvl 5
-plague bomb 1
-religious 3
-PD 5
-mines & explosives 3
-troops 1
-A Mil Sci 3 (with all ships & fleets in training)
-Base con 2
-ship con 4
-resupply 2
-rock colonies only

Enemy tech:
-Max shields
-Dreadnaught hulls
-Max missiles for Jreanar
-Max crystal (shard Cannon/ High energy magnifier) for Phong.

Map:
I'm in the rightmost corner. Phong are above & to the left, Jreanar are south.
-My planet systems are horizontal in the center of my empire, and there are two dead systems above & below them.
-Two warp points from phong space into my home system on the left, with 540 & 430 mines on them, adding 5 per turn to both.
-Two warp points from phong to the north, with 250 mines each. Adding 14 mines every 5 turns to each.
-one warp point two systems to the south, with 420 mines & a picket ship to stop sweepers. Adding 60 mines every 4 turns.

The phong just declared war & sent 1/5th of their fleet into my home system. That's why the one minefield is depleted by 100 mines

Military:
Maintenance: 7%!
-5 boarding party II escorts.
-one DUC frigate
-7 DUC destroyers.
-6 minelayer destroyers
-7 DUC/Tachyon Light Cruisers.
-2 Repair/Resupply LCs
-4 fully trained (+20%) fleets, two just starting training (+3%), 50% of my ships are just starting training too (the other 50% are done).
In a simulator test, the Phong DN can wipe out one of my LCs each battle turn.
My Battle station design can defeat one phong DN, but is crippled in the process.

How do I survive this?
I'm thinking of getting planet util up to 7, and converting all my moons & planets, but I'm not sure if I can Last long enough. If I get planet creation tech, I'll have two more systems full of planets.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 22 April 2001).]

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 24 April 2001).]