Invasion! Beta Discussion

[Emperor's Child]

I'm looking over your space monsters and want a pulse check on my take:

They can't colonize, but they start out stronger and can build quicker than other players can at first. They also start out with ships with unlimited range, so could possiby reach waaaaay out and touch you...

It looks like they are a Harassment type of race that can't expand beyond their home system(s), but are a bloody mess to have next to your newly starting race, right? My guess is that they are strong until the mid game when other (surviving) players get fleets large enough to extermiante the monster nest systems.

Is this about how they play? I can't really see a winning economic model for this race other than a early-game crush of the local opponents.

I'm also curious if it was intnetional to keep them vulnerable to boarding or mental subverters...why not make the nural cores master computers? Seems pretty silly to have a big bad space monster as pets...