The current Torian AI is so annoyingly good at expanding that it manages to suck up half the galaxy in every game I play. Then it's defenses are pathetically poor, that in every game I play, I wind up beating up the Torians to take their many virutally undefended worlds...
Which leads me to being in the lead in terms of planets owned.
Which leads to victory.
It's kind of a sad formula for success. Somehow the other AIs don't seem to capitalize on the Torian weakness as much as I tend to. They seem more interested in good/evil conflicts. Whatever. In every game I make the Torians my slaves.