Where do you hail from?

[Davin]

Also, if you’re up for a competitive one on one, we could take Davin’s Galactac out for a spin and stream updates to this forum...

Sure - you can play with only two players, but that will leave lots of territory open and it will be some time before you bump into each other. OTOH, that gives you both time to learn all the ins and outs of economic expansion without having to worry about military matters for a while.

Or, you may like to recruit a couple of other players that are having fun in currently-running games and see if they want to play an "open" game with you at the same time.