Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately, this has all been rendered irrelevant because a couple of turns after preparing the invasion forces, it turns out that my allies the Korx had a massive invasion fleet just out of my sensor range and took the planet anyway. Go figure.
Right now, I have a bit of a problem in the game. I'm playing as the Yor Collective in the tiniest map setting, I have basically no standing military except for what I can rush buy (Thankfully, I have an income of something around 2,000 BC per turn), because the ridiculously powerful Drath Legion has several fleets and a precursor ship with hundreds of attack points in each category running around blowing up my things. With that background, here's what I'm asking advice for:
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