Well I quit that game without finishing it. I am getting bored with Normal difficulty.. I know im going to win and it takes the fun out of it. I think im gonna boost it up to Tough for my next game.
Anyway.. since I didnt finish the game im not gonna write a story about it.
here is the short and skinny.
As I said..the Torians surrendered and they left me their planets. Well, they left me about 8 planets (pretty much doubled my planet count).. 2 of them were level 21!.. But.. the problem was that they were alllllllll the way on the other side of the galaxy from me.
I like to keep my empire pretty condensed so that I can make use of starbases more easily..and to keep them in range of my releif efforts if they get attacked.
Anywho.. here was my solution

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I traded one of the Torian planets (the one farthest away) to the Altarians in exchange for them attacking the Arceans (who were dangerously close to my new planets). As part of the deal..I also took 5 of his troop transports, and his influence starbase that was making things so difficult for me
I was pretty proud of myself after that deal. So I went and talked to the iconians and traded them a planet to go attack the Arceans too... then traded another one to the Yor to attack the Altarians heheheheheh.
I had the whole galaxy fighting each other while I sat back and built up my two new class 21 planets..and my military strength.
In the end, I used those 5 troop transports full of Altarian troops to go take over some Altarian worlds.. and then quit the game when I saw that I had it in the bag.