Sad thing is, the fighter would probably win. Fighters in this game have huge evasion and quite a lot of damage. Plus, half of all weapons can't be aimed at them. I'm thinking of going without fighters entirely, but that'd cause me to lose out on an all your base reference... So I'll probably just go without giving them armor. But anyway...
@Vauron: It actually is possible to do that! Unfortunately the research cost for that shit is so high that you'd need a galaxy full of high-level research complexes churning away for a year before you get anything useful. Still, we could do something along the lines of "sabotage enemy infrastructure".
It's possible, using intelligence, to incite enemy planets into revolt and make them switch sides. Align with you, even. I've never done it, but it's happened to me, and it's really annoying, since you get no resources from the planet and need to land ground troops to retake it.
Alternately, it's possible to give ships stealth modules. Makes them hard to detect. Put that on a transport ship, maybe add a cruiser for escort and you have an invasion fleet that can capture or glass (bombard from space, killing everyone) planets behind the enemy lines.
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Of course, should our enemy have built weapons platforms we'd be screwed, since we'd almost definetly be shot out of the sky.
Anyway, I'm inclined to go with the highly militarised empire. We'd have some (read: probably quite a lot, depending on how many planets we colonize) ability in research and intelligence of course, just we wouldn't focus on either and use them more to support our military conquests than making them the focus of our empire.
And, of course, we'd declare war on anyone and everyone.
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