Hey there, I wanted to tell you guys that, aside from pirates, there is no way for colonies to completely defend themselves while you aren't there, the best option is to have the least amount of people at a time at war, and to destroy them quickly. I've noticed that both you guys, Winged and Tezztor, share a common name-scheme. Tezztor's is meta, Winged is drake, and mine (user name is psycholian) is psycho.