Any way to survive

Just made a brand new ship last night, fully marined (8 billion of them)

Then went to sleep

Morning came, log in, got 4 attacks

All board attacks

After 4 attacks, my ship is gone !

Can anyone please teach me a way to play without having hammered left right and center ?

I haven't even got the chance to play with that ship and it's gone

I did withstand 3 attacks before it succumbed to the fourth, but still, how to play when all new ships I have got wiped out like that?

Edit:
I only managed to capture the 3 latter attacks, the earlier one unfortunately I didn't save

Here are the way my ship die

2009-07-19 13:02:09
REMOTE ATTACK - BOARD!!!

iantyke(#104195) boarded your fleet and mothership.
iantyke(#104195) destroyed 1 of your ships and lost 180352 ships.
iantyke(#104195)s attack failed.
iantyke(#104195) fleet was no match for your forces.
(+110 Exp)

2009-07-19 19:14:48
REMOTE ATTACK - BOARD!!!

AWSOME!!!(#99668) boarded your fleet and mothership.
AWSOME!!!(#99668) destroyed 0 of your ships and lost 0 ships.
AWSOME!!!(#99668)s attack failed.
AWSOME!!!(#99668) fleet was no match for your forces.
(+10 Exp)

2009-07-19 19:15:06
REMOTE ATTACK - BOARD!!!

AWSOME!!!(#99668) boarded your fleet and mothership.
AWSOME!!!(#99668) destroyed 1 of your ships and lost 0 ships.
AWSOME!!!(#99668) attack was successful and you lost 9 segments.
Your forces suffered a terrible defeat

Edit 2: I'm too fed up with this

You guys can have it for your own