First off, building starbases/outposts and scrapping them immidiently gives out a huge amount of money, you can essentially support an infinite amount of fleets with a "starbase farm" as i would say 😂
next up is the empire morale system, when losing a system/getting it bombarded to oblivion gives a -10 morale on ALL other systems, and if the morale is too low the system will break away, and if a system breaks away it gives ANOTHER -10. So by attacking 5-10 systems at the very same moment, you can essentially cause a cascade of systems breaking off due to low morale and the AI cant do shit about it, ive used it twice by now and its guranteed to work 😂😂
Even though this game came out a long time, to this day i still enjoy it, hopefully the dev is still around in itch ❤️