The best games are when you think all hope is lost but somehow your fourtunes turn around and you make it out alive. The year is 2381 and I'm still fighting this long war where a driven assimilator who conquered half the galaxy declared war on my comparatively feeble federation. Luckily I had started fortifying some systems in anticipation of a war with Aeternum, my relatively small combined fleets of 1.3 million was able to push back the tide and after some gains in the 2360s the Homolog was able to rebuild the fleet and by 2370 I'd lost most of my gains and even more.

This desperate war is back and forth and is the sort of thing I live for. My problem is that I have only 3 fleets strong enough to fight theirs and I'm playing whack a mole, I can gain local superiority but there are too many fronts. I've just researched attack moons and I'm restoring two that have been left in my sytsems, these attack moons are the hope of my people. Perhaps I can form a 4th fleet around these moons to get some breathing space . I'm also trying to delay Aeternum's awakening as much as possible during all this. The free biological people's of the galaxy will prevail!

For mod info I'm using Starnet AI on admiral, Gigastructures, NSC2 with 50% AI resources. A bunch of other smaller mods.

See the imgur album below for some beautiful screenshots:

https://imgur.com/a/f4NisRz