Been messing around with mods recently, and had quite a funny game. One reason was I went Focus and Tech heavy along with a mod which gave more Focus choices and ascension perks, one of which was aperk which gave me extra focus everytime I researched which obviously snowballed pretty quickly. The other reason was that the AI didn't upgrade their fleets unless the old one was destroyed so the first line of defence they had was 75 corvettes with level 1 tech. I suspect a mod conflict so might get the Glavnius AI mod along with the compatibility mod to have fun with next time.