Just ran into a Super Race called the Sapains!!!! They research tech faster than anything, have ships that move up to 5 times faster than what they should be capable of,  and seem to be able to research more than one tech at a time.

What gives. They went from having no special colinazation to being able to colonize any planet in 4 weeks! They apparently researched this because none of the other civs had any kind of special colonization until after the Sapains did.

They created in less than 3 weeks both complete Mass Driver research up to mass driver 3 from mass driver therory and once again no other civ had done this yet. At the same time they completed research on the special colonization.

Talk about walking through my empire...they were able to have a single heavy fighter with no Ion, Impulse, or Warp drive engines be able to chase down a fleet equipped with single impulse 3 engines and destroy it in one turn. Invasions of my planets are fun as well considering that they do not have stellar marines or an equivalent yet they come in at a tech of 25 to my tech of 10 with Full defense platforms on my planets.

Anybody else run into this super race or am I the first? No this was not a mod but a regular game with everything set to random except size which was Immense and number of races which was set to 3.