That's 45 000 heavily armed battleships vs 420 000 tiny fighter pod things. The tiny fighter fleet is halved in battle, and my fleet loses a third of it's battleships. Meanwhile, on a large but sparsely inhabited planet in M33, a new mineral is discovered with properties unlike anything else in existence. It is discovered that it is the key to creating real Alcubierre drives, high-thrust Emdrives, habitable Dyson spheres, Vaccum energy, direct matter-to-energy conversion, wormholes, portal guns, plasmaball shooting-guns, extreme genetic modification, and atomic manipulation and restructuring. The substance is promptly named 'Handwavium', and the planet it is discovered on becomes the galactic equivalent of an Oil-Boomtown. M33 Also changes its name to NeoStraya.