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...I almost never attack the Guardian, and have no very specific plan for doing so - it would depend on factors like the race I'm playing, my tech tree, the size of the galaxy, whether I have powerful enemies, and the reason I'm going after the Guardian in the first place. Master of Orion just doesn't lend itself to one-size-fits-all strategies.
In this case, I originally planned to attack using clouds of small Mass Driver fighters while I cut off weapons research and beelined construction (which would help miniaturize things), planetology (for non-Orion related reasons, but it would help me produce and maintain the fleet) and Computers (which would provide the battle computers I'd need). When I realized just how much space Mass Drivers take up and how many of them I'd need to field to crack the Guardian, I (felt like an idiot for going back for Mass Driver in the first place and) proceded up the weapons tree instead of Planetology, basically just because my beloved artifacts world was named Artemis. (Heh.) You can see the design I wound up using in my report, and I'm still pretty happy with it; I actually could have gotten away with fielding a much smaller number of these (I think ~450 total would do it if I divided and piloted them properly) but didn't think of the ideal way to handle them when I was actually playing.
