I've been busy, but I managed to play a few more turns.
Organic Technology 3
Weapons Platform 2
2411.5 - THe toltayans have another suprise for me = high quality emissive armor, which negates up to 60 points of damage. This makes them immune to all the ships in my fleets except the new BBs with the spinal mounts, and most of those are still in transit. Once again, my fighters save me, as even a small stack can get over 60 points.
I did get to use one of the Spinal Mount BBs, and it was quite fun. I can nearly gut an enemy BB with 2 heavy mounted shield depleters and 2 spinal mounted lightning guns. If they all, hit. Another aspect of using such big weapons is you are putting your eggs in one (well two
) basket.