Well, I talked to the melnorme guy, he taught me how to make plasma cannons instead of ion bolt guns, i bought 2, and a dynamo...are you telling me I won't have space for that later on? Are there any upgrades for my little earth landers? they seem to just get demolished. Maybe I dont know what I'm talking about because I haven't fought anything real yet.

But is the bottom line that you don't have SPACE in your flagship to make it formiddable? or later on will i get better fighters that will fight better than my flagship?

Very early in the game your flagship becomes very powerful. Why would you ever want to use your small attack ships in combat? I don't understand their use except that I can store extra crew in them. Help?