Move a colony ship into another galaxy where there is less competition. Protect your HW with a cruiser fleet (another player may come in and grab your outposts and I do not believe destroyers would work well against that particular strategy). I research Remote Harvesting first to get the better ship. then advanced shipyards, then fleet maneuvers for cruisers. Then I went advanced shipyards again. Not sure what to recommend exactly now with some of the changes occurring on future servers.