Once you start amassing a fleet, the Military Logistics Command Center, Dockware Manager, and Freighters will help you manage it. Automation features like Tug, Station Agent, Dock Agent, improved UTs, and a new experience point loot system will help you mass wealth to support your fleet. You have help in the form of a plethora of new tools which I've implemented to help you win. You're not expected to deal with this alone. On a simple invasion of the OCV (which is roughly half of a sector's fighting force), don't show up at the party with anything less than a few destroyers, wings of M6s, and several carriers with full hangars of armed-to-the-tits fighter ships. Used to taking on the Universe with an M7? It's not enough anymore. Constant pressure on the regular rabble of the Commonwealth and Terran Universe are a necessity to avoid distraction while you deal with the main threats. You'll need every optimization of your trader fleet, every cheap trick, and every strategy you've learned in X3 to push back at those new threats. So the ultimate answer to the question what now? Beat those two enemies.
Push back the Omicron Channel Virus, and defeat them at their home world. One by one, this virus is taking over every sector of the Universe. It's soon revealed that ships of seemingly Xenon origin have amassed a sizable fleet and are taking over sectors.
All scripts, code, and written modifications were written by myself (I modified all scenes, some models, but the credit for the models goes to the artist). There is very little of the game that I haven't touched. It's my labour of love, 7 years in the making. Litcube's Universe is a complete overhaul mod for X3:Albion Prelude.