Hi!
What can I do to get back into the green?
What's your income, outcome, ballance? What's making you the biggest loss?
Without those answers I can offer you just general advices:
- increase taxes to the point most planets will be just above 20% approval (beware: on those below 20% pop will "get lost" 10% per week). You need over 50% approval only for the week of elections;
- decrease spending (well, with your debt that's already taken care of),
- change your government to a more profitable one,
- destroy/downgrade ISs on most planets (but most critical ones),
- spread pop from high-pop planets to those lacking.
- sell what you can: techs for cash, expensive ships (to decrease maintenance), even those most-expensive planets, if you can't make them pay for themself in reasonable time (though better try destroying very expensive buildings there first),
- put in queue on most planets econ buildings, or just replace some factories/labs with them (that's after you get to the point you can start producing again),
- get rid of some starbases - each one costs you 5BC to maintain,
- reload a game from an older savegame.
Hope something of that will help you. It all depends on how much income you're making now. If it's several 10,000, you'll likely survive that depression.
BR, Iztok