A question about 'late-game'. This is my first playthrough and I'm not sure how to deal with it. I have about 9 colonies and at this point, the raids from pirates are starting to get OP for my defenses. I had 5 fleets strong Pirate raid and my defenses can't handle it, however, I don't have the number of ships to repel any attacks of that scale. Point being, should I just give up on defending my bases and just leave it to my patrols while I keep uncontrollably expanding and slowly surrounding the core with my military bases or should I slow down and care more for each singular base? My income is enough to keep expanding however not enough to build my own fleet (about 400k per month but some colonies are still very new).