I just played a seven hour long game (Hell yeah, it was intense) as TEC. My initial fleet composed of:

1 Marza, 2 Kols, two Sovas, one Dunov, one Akkan, 50 LRM's, 40 Kodiaks, 60 Cobalts, 36 Percherons, 20 Hoshikos, 2 Protev Colonies (IDK why, just thought it would seem cool, and if the Akkan was taken down to prevent me from colonizing), 20 Gardas, 8 Krosovs, two Cieloes. Me and one of my allies (must smaller raid fleet, but good nonetheless) met with the enemy player (300+ games) at the sun. His fleet was 3 Radaince Batteships, 2 Raptures, 2 Progenitors, 2 Halcyons, 1 Revelation, 40 Destras, 20 Guardians, 10 Defense Vessels, 80 Disciples, 20 Illums (He didn't spam, like the true man he was lol j/k). It was really the number of capital ships he had under his command. Without is escorts, we could've easily annihilated him.

I engaged him while I told my ally to retreat (wouldn't stand a chance aganist him) as I took heavy damage to my Marza. It was a lvl 7, but still a hell-good ship. It survived the barrage, and helped some of my Kodiaks to decimate the enemy Halcyon. They then ordered their carries to retreatt (which created the thought in my mind it was his only Halcyon left that had escaped, which drove me to raid after the battle). I lsto several Kodiaks in the process, but managed to destroy two of the Radiance Battleships for one of my Kols.

Now we were slowly weathering away at each other's ships. My fighters tore apart their Destra Crusaders and my Hoshikos tried to repair any damaged ships as I used Armstice from my Akkan. I then destroyed the enemy Revelation (preventing him from pinging any of my planets to prevent any future raids to my planets). I destroyed most of his fleet, although the one Halcyon, one Rapture and one Radiance survived. I took surprisingly light forces but of course lost one of my warships. I built another as I launched my battle fleet to his capitol.

I was surprised and not at the same time not to find any caps there, except some Illums and Disciples as light diversionary forces.

I decimated his capitol. As his empire slowly sagged underneath him, I tried to use culture to subsue more of his planets to my empire.

As luck would have it, two of his 10 planets subdued.

Sweeping apart his defenses, it came down to an ice planet- his last planet and his newly established capitol. I found his three capital ships there, surprisingly with almost no escort shisp but a lot of Beam Platforms. I quickly destroyed the platforms as my Marza bombarded the planet. I got the rest of  my fleet to focus on the enemy Carrier. With it blowing to hell in flames, I focused upon the Rapture, a lvl 4 cap. bringing it down quickly, it all came down to the radiance- a lvl 10 death machine. Only one of my ships were lvl 9, my only surviving Kol. The rest were 8, and my newly built Kol was already a lvl 5.

It was a heated brawl between just the Radiance and Kol. He asked not to attack with my flet and I accepted. I eventually took it down, and it was promoted to lvl 10. Happy as a doe, I blew apart hsi planet and declined all efforts of peace accords and cease-fires. I wanted his planets to burn. And all during the while, my ally learned a shitload of tricks frmo me, lol.

Other than that. . . that's it. Hope you enjoyed Please ask question, critisize, if you must, but please discuss.