I'm starting to hate Tackle Drone Launchers. Really hate them. They're one of the patrol ships, and an hour in there's a bottleneck I have to punch through to break into the galaxy at large. The system isn't too well defended, except for 58 tackle drone launchers with over two million health each. The mark 3s defending some systems have about 6 mil each. Just as evil as gravity drain patrols.
I guess I'm going to run starships this game. Perhaps Zenith and Heavy Bombers. Hopefully that should make things a lot easier.
P.S. Oh, I forgot to mention something. MiniFortresses and Forts still have tachyon emissions? It isn't listed, but I see the purple circle when I check ranges. The only cloaked units the AI has, however, are my zombified reprocessors, a victim of viral clusters AI.