Colony or Outpost?

[Supamand]

That's another good point. The way the game is designed now, if you show up in orbit of an enemy colony with anything less than 20 dreadnoughts, you lose your entire fleet and inflict no lasting damage.

I'm trying to understand how this system seems fun or sensical.

Well think about it. If the planets were weaker, than a noob would be able to kill your home world and take all your outpost wile you are sleeping!
And it could of been done on like a
Second day after a server launch.
I think the system is pretty well balanced, we just need to understand it better

But Jet, if you are looking to destroy planets, you should consider Bering a warlord. They get really strong ships. You'd probably only need 2 or 3 to wipe out a colony in 1 shot.
Not to mansion the planet killer ship that can kill a planet in 1 shot from across the sector!!!