I dusted off my GalCiv2 yesterday and began playing the campaign. I started where I left off, with the mission preceeding the one I'm having difficulty with. Today I begain the titeled mission and I can't figure it out. Admittidly, I'm a little rusty-I probably haven't played in well over a year, but this seems abnormally difficult!

I played through a few times. The first few times I was dessimiated by the Dread Lord fleets that wiped out my starbases and began capturing my planets. The last time I managed to muster up a small fleet, but the Dread Lord's super ships were too strong and a fleet of Korath transports conviently arrived to take over my unprotected planets.

After searching, I only found one forum-posted on another website-about this mission. I tried to build up a decent military but I run out of money and can't support my shipyards. I sent a scout to the Dread Lord's planet and sent spies to minimize their production, but they're military was already strong enough to beat me down...

What do I do!?