Early Game / Senate
by Phantom52

If you happen to start in the senate, you'll want to make lots of spies quickly. What I suggest if you want a quick lead, is create lots of scientific spies, and send them at the "New Orions". Most of the time, they'll either die, or stop enemy research.

Now why would I do something that dumb?!

Relax, as in sometimes you might just get lucky in stealing that new weapon system, or system / stardrive that'll help you explore, or give that edge in defending that new colony right next to one of your neighbours.