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When you are defending your systems, you can refit your fleets at any time.
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They get up to +5 bonus movement through their traits, unique techs, and pop bonuses, their heroes have a +6 movement skill, and all their ships have at least 2 support module slots for engines even before the additional slot upgrade. The Vodyani remove the distance advantage by being very, very fast. The distance advantage is self-explanatory the aggressor has to move much farther and thus their ships may be outdated by the time they arrive. The defender's advantage has four components distance, counter-refitting and healing, the influence cost of war declaration/forced truces on the aggressor, and the difficulty of invading. The most powerful thing about the Vodyani is all the ways they remove the defender's advantage. You don't have to go to war to leech and can cross closed borders due to Righteous Fury, so be the aggressor.
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Science-wise, planet colonization techs deserve special focus due to the unique Vodyani population mechanics (pick the order according to your situation!) later, mothership module upgrades can multiply your empire performance.Prioritize the first couple of Arks over growing your population, to claim resources and strategic positions, as well as gaining increased Essence production from Ark modules.Pass Species Stability as soon as you can, to smooth out your early essence gain. Both the power law, Righteous Fury, and the starting law, Species Stability, are important for Vodyani early game. Try not to lose the party from the senate.Vodyani get one of the highest bonuses from boosting. Scavenged ramscoop is an especially good module, because its bonus to distance moved is multiplicative.
Whenever you have to move an Ark, try to put just enough engines in utility slots to get it to destination as fast as possible. Send them directions your ships aren't going to explore, it's imperative to find as many minor factions as fast as possible and locate a nearby homeworld