Well done. I wish you luck. I've basically stopped playing my Vellos account; my Haman account is far more interesting, and Hierulf is so far from there that I hardly give him any thought.
Well at my best estimate is I just lost 30,000 battleships to the opening turn
My main hope is my own defense frightens him off. I can already see him trying to claim !@#$ty little undefended planets I took off his buddy Oldry, but no movement towards my own core.