This sounds like a good idea. I reckon you should be able to research carriers after you have completed your large hulls research, and you'd have to build one like a normal ship, then create the ships you wish to board onto it seperately. A similar fashion to putting units on boats in games like Age Of Empires.
I find a good tactic is to built a large invasion fleet first, then take over a large amount of their space in a few short turns. Once this has been done, offer a peace treaty, but make them pay you money and technologies for the peace. They are usually eager to make up once their empire starts to crumble. This way is much cheaper than a full scale take over, plus you get to bully people into giving yousome lovely booty. Of course, once you've made friends again, build up another fleet for a
I've read a few post about people having trouble with the Torians. Here's a game example that I played through: On a huge galaxy, with the difficulty on Challenging, I grabbed a nice spot of the galaxy for myself, but the Torians took over a large, central portion of the map. Soon enough, their natural enemies, the Dregin attacked, however, the Torians completely overpowered them, invaded, and took over the Drengin planets too. For most of this game, I took a backseat, in
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