Whew. It's going to be a long hard push but I believe I will succeed. I'm playing my first metaverse game and the Dominion began by spreading out far and wide very quickly. After a couple of years game time they had became the ultimate power in the galaxy. They started waging war on every other civ, except me for some reason thankfully. Everyone eventually began surrenduring to the Dominion. I managed to form an alliance with the Yor just before they surrendured. Thanks to my alliance they surrendured to me. The only civ that was able to go semi toe-to-toe with the Dominion was the Iconian Refugees, but now they are slowly being wiped out by war and cultural revolts. The game started outwith 7 or 8 civs and now it's down to The Dominion, Myself, and the Iconian Refugees, whom are losing their war. The Dominion controls about 70% of the massive galaxy and is gaining more from the Iconian Refugees. Every habitable planet in the galaxy has been colonized. I started a war with The Dominion to try and keep the Dominion from gaining a cultural victory. Thanks to my superior ships I am driving The Dominion deeper and deeper into their territory as I take their planets that are inside and along my borders. I've taken about 10 or so right now and have several fleets made up of my most powerful ships running around inside Dominion territory destroying starbases and keeping planet defenses down to keep them ripe for my fleets of transport ship. They have tried for peace twice now but I rejected them. It looks good right now but I think that The Dominion is catching up to me in ship technologies. I've been waging war with Huge ships fighting their Medium ships but I think I killed a Dominion Large ship a few turns back. I have tried everything that I can think of to form an alliance with the Iconian Refugees but the option won't appear in negotiations. (Yes I have the tech and they are on friendly terms with me) I think it may because my custom civ is ethically evil. Hopefully though, I can keep up the big push and unseat The Dominion from power. They have a total military score about 2.5 or 3 times that of mine, but my ships are vastly superior and I have won 98% of the many many battles I have fought with The Dominion so I think, unless they come out with huge ships soon, it'll be too late for them.