One Planet Challenge

[Nodachi]

If you allow the AI to colonize they're going to have a huge advantage over the humans.

There are a million things we could do to counter the research loss. I like the idea of having to capture ships for tech (kind of like P&N). Boarding parties at game start would probably be easiest to do. Then at higher levels change it over to a ranged attack based on the AS, commando torpedoes!