Hmmm... What necessarily would make it into a three-way battle, especially upon first contact. I know, even I am eager to bring out my military goodies and the vectors of battle and the wall of battle ships, the packets and the laser counter battery knife fights, the mine dumps and the explosions all around, but we need a reason- a story behind this. How the heck did this happen, and why? With my current cannon on this nation, I don't think we'd be the third side in the battle, except as an accidental observer. My military ships have their traveling range limits, and we aren't exactly going to be setting massive logistic trains just to fight some random alien at war with another alien, both whom we don't know about and probably don't really have to care about.
Yeah, though that's part of why all my larger ships (Battleship/Transport up) have meat vats and small farms, its not enough to feed a fleet, but the ship its in (at normal capacity) can be kept going for awhile. We have fleet bio-ships (misleading, I know) being updated for military use as part of project TITAN, previously, they were used to keep the first colony fed while it works. Once they're done, they should provide mobile food trains, fuel and ammo is another problem in its right.



