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If you are fighting the AI, it seems to me that they usually go after your biggest ships first. I would suggest that Humans who don’t pay much attention to their fleet orders would use this default AI. If you are facing such a person, building a larger than average ship with lots of shields and armor may draw the early enemy fire while your offensive forces are unhindered.
I sometimes use specialty ships with one of the Massive weapons from ruins in this role, if I've found any. They're usually the first thing the AI targets, even if there are larger hulls in the fleet. My impression is that the AI tends to go after the most expensive ship, not necessarily the biggest.
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Cap'n Q
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"