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Encountering Siege frigates within 5-10 mins of starting an easy AI game possible? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

My first time playing Sins, I fired up a 1v1 Easy AI - Economist game and first thing I did was build up on the asteroids around the home planet and send 2 scouts out to map the galaxy. The 2nd planet (2 phase jumps away from HW) my scout found a new habitable planet, yet there was a siege frigate there, along with 2-3 normal frigates (enemy was TEC). I was like, the game just started, how on earth did the AI manage to get enough resources so quickly to build a military station or t