This game is pretty fun though, i was doing a play session and all of a sudden a huge major random event happened that shifted the tide of the galaxy quadrant FOREVERZ. I like to think[to make it just that little bit more fun]that the homeworld that i started on was a outpost for the Terran Alliance, so I named it Tonus Outpost [something #]. Then it matured and i thought i could say it seceeded from the alliance and stuffs. Anywho, just in my playing session a mega random event happened, Ragged Knife was formed and took over 22 planets instantly. 4 of them being mine, i sent my stupid default transports to the worlds that were taken over, mind that most of them were border-colony production worlds that sat on my border, only one was economic. So i suppose that makes some sense, anyway my original ships were no match for the populous and soldierous enemys on those planets, so i made a new transport design that holds 2,000 troops. I soon invaded and captured the Hyadea System, and 2 colonys NorthEast of my main territory in a loose sector. It was very costly though, depleted quite a bit of my money. Though i have captured all my old colonys, i plan to boost my current 13 colonys to 15 colonys by invaded the festering Ragged Knife colonys on my borders that were orignally not mine. I also bribed every other friggin major race to go to war with 'em so i wont have to actively seek them out through the galaxy to destroy them. I shall turn the extra planets i gain from the war into economic planets so i may recover. Long-term plan thing.