Ok, I apologize for my retardation here. 

I dont understand how to climb towards success?  I feel like every move I make I loose ships or money.  How am I supposed to climb and start succeeding? 

Also, are mission ships not capture-able?? 

21 milion worker
7  thousand production....

3207 Bio farms

How does this translate though?  I just dont get it...

EDIT:  Also, as far as the cotton picking swamer fleets, should I be trying to build just one group of 20k first, or trying to build 3 at one time?