Well it took me long enough to catch him. I made a mistake of not having enough deut ready in the same gala. So when I spied his fleet down I could only send enough ships that the deut there would allow, this included recyclers. Then after the hit went down I was kicked from the net. Took me over an hr to get back on. By this time vider was online and collecting some of the DF. I was able to relaunch RC's. I will say he showed great sportsmanship over this (he explained was now the 5th fleet lost ).. I did re attack as he had 500+ RC's collecting the df.To my suprise I hit them and stopped him getting to much.. He got about 70kk metal fair play Lordvider. Due to the low amount of deut available I was only able to send less than 1/3rd of my fleet but out come still very good.

The attacker has won the battle !
You receive 3909322 units of Metal, 5682266 units of Crystal and 710705 units of Deuterium.
The attacker has lost a total of 58.560.000 units.
The defender has lost a total of 824.168.000 units.
A debris field containing 352.387.800 units of Metal and 175.030.500 units of Crystal has formed in orbit around the planet
The probability of creating a moon is : 18 %

The attacker has won the battle !
You receive 12716667 units of Metal, 22202 units of Crystal and 19374 units of Deuterium.
The attacker has lost a total of 510.000 units.
The defender has lost a total of 46.286.500 units.
A debris field containing 3.748.500 units of Metal and 2.364.000 units of Crystal has formed in orbit around the planet.
The probability of creating a moon is : 18 %

DF all but 70kk metal was recovered

Glotr I do hope you return from VM and rebuild you are the type of player Zorg needs.

patience is a virtue, well done!