Yeah I actually feel kind of stupid. I read the manual for the first time after I posted (while at a business meeting lol) and saw that its just their colony ship. I was going to say...for a "mother ship" it looked kind of small. xD Thanks for the helpful replies though. :)
So I was playing my first game, medium map vs 3 other AI. I got placed next to a back planet with no access but the one i had to it, so I took that planet over, switched my home planet and made my old home planet a major base (lots of turrets and stuff). Spent about an hour building up both planets, took some asteroid and built up its defenses. anyways so after an hour and a half I decided to start attacking people. I built some frigates, missle frigates, 2 battle ships, and went to the planet (
