How to kill the advent
I'm Vasari Rebels, and am playing on a medium 2v2v1 map where each team gets their own star system and there's one left over. Pretty much once the game started I took control of most of the planets in the system and built some starbases around my choke points. Then I sent my flying egg ship and colonized as many planets as I could from the unused system before anyone else, then I ate said planets. Somewhere during that process the other two teams had been sending little raid partys against me (the team of two were also Vasari, and the team of 1 was an advent player on the hardest difficulty). I was able to control them and had just started to build a decent sized fleet when they actually attacked me. Their fleet wasn't too big, but it was extremely effective. I had a titan and multiple cap ships in the stars grav well and I turn away for a second and they all die, the vrt's titan is arguably the worst titan in the game, but with a few caps near it, it should be able to survive for a little bit. The Advents fleet was primarily composed of a lot of illuminator vessels 6 level 6-8 caps, and towards the end a level 3 eradica. I had done about half of the military research for armor shields and weapons, but it wasnt helping. After my titan died I quickly built another one (with my thousands of planet eating credits) and about 7 cap ships (mostly kortuls, a few of the scorpion ships and one skirvanta carrier) which I trained to lvl3. On top of that I had about 40 corvettes and some LRF's, I sent them in through my phase gate to go help out one of my fully upgraded military star bases. They killed at most one enemy cap ship and several frigates. My starbases quickly fell afterwards without killing anything else and my outer worlds were captured.
What am I doing wrong? I just don't understand how the Advent player could stand up to all of my fleet, a little of my allies, and three fully upgraded star bases. What can I do to kill this guy?
-I'm not saying the Advent are op, Im just wondering how to beat them