Have you got any other mods stacked on Maelstrom?

I have been busy with RL (building a house).

In the next update I will add late game research for combat, non-combat, defense and for all races.

Dreadnought will only be created if there are capitial ship slots available, also loyalist and Rebel Dreads will have independent abilities.

I will also update some of the Capital and Titan ship abilities

Ok, just played the new update and the trade alliance is really over classed.  The AI had a single level 1 titan, 2 dreads and 2 cap ships and about 20 frigates wiped out two fully loaded tec starbases, 28 squadrons of fighters and about 40 cannons and mines without losing a single capital ship.  In the end, the AI only lost a handful of frigates.  Almost all of the alliance AI ships were firing well outside the range of anything in the system.  I am going to back to the previous version, much less frustrating lol.

The Trade Alliance ship firepower has not been changed from the previous release.

I am not surprised that the Tradeallinace fleet had no troubles taking out the defense of your planet.

To make a informed reply I would need to know ... the AI difficulty level, game time, relative position of starbases, dreadnought levels, etc.

Consider ... super-dreanoughts are equivalent to leveled up titans ... they were designed as starbase killers. So you had effectively 3 Titans attacking your planet and you had no support/defense fleet

Your right and that makes sense.  No critique intended.  You have done an awesome job with the mod and I have spent 100+ hours in it.  I really appreciate all you have done.  Incredible work. 

1 year later still playing this mod, love it!