TEC Loyalists get increased build rates when there are enemies around if that counts.

As for Vasari Rebels... eh, I think their phase jumping star bases make up for it.

If the Orky gains the ability to jump...    That could mean that provided you had the money, you could simply spam Orkies all day long and make a fleet of them.  An entire fleet of them while you let your phase missiles do the talking...  That would be...  So insanely powerful.  Yes, The Maw will shred fleets, but jumping Orkies...  Now that's a painful prospect for an enemy.  

A maxed Orky is a dreadful thing to behold with four around a star being nigh invincible as they can kill off pretty much any amount of Orgovs simply because their DPS is so high, so I can only imagine what would happen if you had a fleet of 10 of these monsters.  Not only that, but you would also probably have your titan and your various capitals with you as well, meaning that a late-game Vasari Rebel fleet is likely to be pretty much unkillable.  Let's see what upgrades you'd want...

2x Weapons (to unlock both disintegrators and phase missiles)
2x Armor
1x SC
0x Phase Node
1x Trade Port
0x Population Upgrade
0x Debris Vacuum
2x Frontal Deflector Shields

If you decided to completely leave planets behind, then you'd probably want to upgrade the population as well to get tax money, but still...  An entire fleet of those coming at you...  That would be scary.

[quote who="Mr. Haze" reply="4" id="3132221"]The Loyalists are the ones that leave planets behind, Rebels will still need them.

Additionally, if I'm not mistaken, the Orkulus can only jump to phase stabilizer nodes (I saw something about that on the forums) and you can still only have 1 per well.

Still though, you're right, phase jumping Orkies is terrifying.[/quote]

That was my first reaction, but then I remembered I can use Wail of the Sacrificed to wipe out every other non-capital ship next to it, and heavily damage the capital ships, as well as dealing a considerable amount of damage to the shields of the Orky and the Titan before they jump to my planet. So you'll have a star base, a titan, and a bunch of half-dead cap ships jumping to engage my full fleet plus planetary defenses.

Sounds fair to me.

That's ok, I have planets adjacent to my own planets, hopefully. That really screws with the Kostura.

It says adjacent gravity wells, not enemy adjacent gravity wells. Also, I wouldn't sacrifice an entire planet for a few ships. I would sacrifice one if I'm sure to lose the other ( thus wiping out the enemy fleet and saving all the structures around the planet being saved ), like in the case of a star base, titan and an entire fleet jumping to one.

Marauders still have to put up with enemy defenses on the way in..

Now now girls you're both pretty

nope, affects adjacent wells as well.

u still cant build more than one orky in a gravity well, and u cant make an orky to jump to a gravity well that already has one, this means that u can only use one for attacking.

one fully armed and armored orky jumping to your gravity well (with or without a fleet) still feels brutal

but scuttling planets for resourses is better (though i wish that the titan would eat them instead of you scutteling them)