Hooray! I win! Technology Victory!
No, you didn't. Altarian Resistance wins.
Wait...what?
Has that every happen to someone? My advisors informed me that the Altarians are trying to win via technology. I quickly began to hinder them while trying to get it myself. I plant spies in their research buildings, I declare war on him and I sneeze in their general direction. Being the biggest military power in the universe let me.
And then, at last, I finish research Technology Victory and the next turn, I get a defeat screen. What? There should at least be a tie-screen...