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?  
hey loco, not exactly sure what you are doing wrong since you haven't given enough info about your stragies.
I am assuming from your post that you use swarmers in missions? If so, then don't. Super/mission ships are better cause they will die less often.