ORIGINAL: cmdrnarrain
Tavior,
Sorry, not sure about what you are referring too?
The comment above is a current game where I had to go all trader route due to huge maintenance fee and slow population growth. So I was talking about one way to get ready to go to war with Shakturi by having them spread out their fleet among AI empires then preposition your fleets within the trading route and crush their space port before breaking off trade relationships.
I did that against an AI empire without taking the homeworld which was devastating because they had nothing to rebuild ships. Short of constructor/colony ships.
See the picture now?