I'm not too excited about auxiliary government either. The enemy can still completely neutralize the planet and the income it creates. They just can't colonize which can be achieved with culture as well.

I THIK ADVEWNT BASES SHOULD HURL ENEMY SHIPS AT PLANETS!!!!!!!!!!!!

What if the starbases did have this power (Tractor Beam for TEC) but it only worked on planet bombers, this would be nice to stop the AI bomber spam, but other than that have not much worth or instant, you die and cannot choose to run power.

They call you levelheaded? .......why? lol. It's not a bad idea, but hurling a flamin metor is just plain cooler...either way it's still useless unless you are going to destroy the enimies colony when they try to make one after bombing the pannet and skitting arround the starbase, but at least this one is free with the other meteor power right?

I think a better fix to this problem would be to just have it so auxilarry government can stop the bombing at 1hp so you can keep upgrades and not have to re-colonise. Thats what I thought it did when it said "prevents loss of controll of the planet due to bombing" guess what? I lost contoll, it's just the enemy cannot gain controll, at least change the deceptive description lol

I've never used those upgrades before, but thats exactly what I thought they did. It really sucks that you can still lose control of the planet. That SB upgrade should prevent that.

Also, the idea that SBs can pull enemy ships towards them is not OP imo, as long as the ability has a limited range (though still a very long one) and/or can only effect a limited no. of enemy ships at a time.

Yeah, auxiliary government is not even close to worth using given how limited upgrade slots are right now.