Flying to your colonies to defend is annoying as stuff and there isn't really anything interesting about the space stage anyway. I was hoping to invade other colonies and create armies and stuff.
You know how war should of worked?
A chess like game.
You build your types of units (fast ones, slow ones, etc) and then you move it on a game board and there are two ways to win. Either destroy all of their pieces, or take a flag ship to their planet.