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Could continue the theme and name one Eberron....

Wait, so, technically, I RULE THE WORLD! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA DANCE SLAVES DANCE!!!!

Erherm, excuse me, continue your day, minions.

Nope,
Going to restart this in a week or so, this week will be busy with my testing my new system\seeing if I can make it catch fire.

Blegh, no energy tonight, going to have to do a new update sunday or monday.

Ahh, so it was. I thought it felt longer ago than the ps2 era:p

It's still rather early in the game, only about 15ish turns in (not at home, can't check atm). We're still working on Waldo Units, which I read somewhere as being a good general starting tech for the cheaper ships. From there, I have no idea where to go. As for my next in game move for the next while, I plan to pump scouts and explore as many stars as possible, I don't really see the piont of building defensive ships atm, as I've come across no hostile presence.

If you want an experienced answer(not a fun answer):


Derelicts have top tier technology. Antimatter beams and such. You would need a ton of destroyers to defeat it at close range. However, it has no long range weaponry. Missiles from afar can slowly beat it to a pulp(and I do mean slowly), if my memory serves me right. However, if you do want to do it the fun way, you can specifically target "turrets" and slowly disable the derelict. However, you would have to leave it alone until you could afford the number of destroyers needed to do this. Like 20-30 with an armada CnC. There are no benefits to disabling it. You would blow it up anyway.  But its fun. 

On the note of disabling it. I couldn't help myself so I checked the wiki. If you disable instead of destroy, it's an extra 15% bonus to research (so 25%, destroying it gives you 10%). Also, destroying it only gives you the bonus for 1 turn, disabling for 4. So, should I go lasers for accuracy? I don't want to risk missing too much and blowing it up, as that's a significant bonus, especially with the 50% research speed.