Recently got the game and i first tried my hand as the rebels and eventually got bored after 2000+ days....Switched to the empire for a small galaxy normal game...i got the seswenna sector and sluis sector under control fairly early on but the rebs got the corellian sector. Grand i blockaded everything and built up enough forces to invade...Bonus is i got my death star finished before day 1000 and blew up duros and yavin because i couldnt be arsed invading and conquering and then swaying the planet to my side Anyways i found the rebels on a couple of inhabited planets throughout the rim (sent a carrack with 9 probe droids to each sector i didnt own and did recon missions every so often) Blockaded all the rebels planets and found the HQ in the Yavin sector (cant remeba the proper name) So i bombed the crap out of it...Got vader onto my SSD and made sure that was there and invaded capturing luke and freeing the galaxy! Did i mention that i captured leia and mon mothma twice? The space battles were awesome and it was easy to build up a good navy... Finished around 1600 but it took a solid 3 days of probably 8 hours of playing (recently got the game [without the manual...DOH!] and so im trying to learn all the intricacies of the game