ok marcus, y couldnt the imp player simply fortiy his planets while building up a massive fleet, so all his planets have base defence and golan platforms etc, then he keeps builing up uber fleet, u keep hopping back and forth messin with his planets defesne, but i doubt u would b able to get through without takin lots of causlites, becuase, if it was me, the second i had stuff behind my lines, i would build planet defsne, starting with teh planets on OUTSIDE so u couldnt send in any reinforcements, then planet defense, to hold off rebel attacker, then massive fleet, with several interdictors, simply go blow the heck outa your now useless fleet behind enemy lines, then keep building up ships, have a group of several captial ships remind behind on base defence to compliemnt planet defence, then systematcily take over rest of stuff with massive fleet, only leaving the planet when its heavly fortired, then it would end as a brute force contest so i dont know, im sure there is still plenty of ship stargety, but still