Wiping out that bastard empire that keeps fucking with your colonies

The first thing you want to do is get yourself the shield upgrade, and also update to mega lazor. If you have allied with any empires, fly there and open up diplomacy and ask for one of their ships which they will agree to and you now have an allied ship flying with you to help, you can have up to 4 allied ships with you. If you have allies you may also want to buy a couple heal packs for allied ships so you don't lose them if they get damaged on a planet, hover your mouse over them to get status on their health.

Now it's time for war.

In this example I'm going to use the Tiramizu empire that kept fucking up my colonies near their empire.

First turn on the Empires icon and also friends and allies icon, that way you can see the red circles around the empire you want to beat down.

Now quickly fly to the enemy star system that's closest to your nearest star system, just keep zooming in until you are on their planet.

Hit your shield icon under weapons, as long as shield is on (Sphere around your ship) they can't touch you. Now click one of their colonies on your map and just fly in and hover over their city hall. Since they can't touch you select your best weapon and hammer their city hall. Look at the little power bar that pops up, this tells you how close they are to surrender. When the bar reaches zero a white flag will pop up telling you they surrender, at this point STOP firing and fly to the next colony, rinse and repeat.

If you run out of energy or your shield runs out bail the fuck out, go to your nearest friendly system, go to trade and buy energy and repairs, then zoom down to their planet and wait for your shield to recharge.

Once shield is recharged, fly back to the enemy planet and keep taking out the rest of the colonies. As soon as all colonies have surrendered an option at the top of the screen will say "capture system" hit the button and voila, you have taken over that system, it now belongs to your empire.

We are still not done though. Fly back to a friendly and heal up.

Look at the red enemy zone again, fly to the next system they have and rinse and repeat. If you look at the Empire trail, you will notice one of their systems is brighter in color, that's their home system and you want to leave that for last. As you keep taking out their minor star systems their empire strength goes down, that's what you want, because if it's at full strength, taking over their home system is going to take ages.

All done? Now lets take over their home system. This is not going to be as easy, as home systems have many more colonies to take down and have surrender, but it's worth it trust me.

The strategy for taking over the home system is the same, shield on, hammer a colony into surrendering, then the next, and so on until you can capture the home system.

Here's the cool thing, when you take over the home system you have ton's of spice producing colonies that you only have to heal by replacing any buildings you destroyed, once that's done, you have not only taken down this pesky empire that kept messing you up, but you also have all their minor star systems PLUS the home system, all producing spice for YOU.

When you have taken over a system or two you will be rolling in sporebucks, I'm at something like 60 millions so I don't care about money anymore. Once you have that kind of cash, just boy a Planet Buster and fly straight for the enemy empire home system and blow it away. Using a planet buster for the first time WILL make your jaw drop, it's seriously Star Wars blow up the death star awesome