Galactic Core

Reaching the Galactic Core is one the three main goals of the game.[citation needed] The Galactic Core is surrounded by The Grox Empire, which is extremely powerful. It is approximately 1,000 parsecs from your home planet and forces your ship's travel range to progressively reduce back to interstellar drive 1 levels the closer your ship gets to it.

To Get There
First of all you absolutely need a level 3 interstellar drive or better, with the limiting effects of the gravitational fluctuations this is just enough to travel between stars. The second thing you need is to have a Wormhole Key, that way you don't waste time going through the galaxy's arms. WARNING: If you use a black hole to get near the Core you have to remember the exact one to get back. To actually get to the Core you'll need to plaw through The Grox's huge empire, which won't be easy. Everytime you go to another of their systems they'll send one or two more ships to chase you, and will have up to a dozen ships. Their ships have 2,700 HP and do about 150 damage per second. To effectively fight them off you'll need health over 4,000 with Mega Repair Packs (Pack 10 at least, you'll need them!), Shield (basically invincibility for a minute or two), and Antimatter Missiles (Bring lots!) or Mega Proton Missiles. If you are lucky enough, you can also use a cloak, with it you won't need all the stuff but is far harder to get unless you were Economy in the Civilisation Phase. Those weapons and abilities are very effective on the Grox ships. WARNING: The Grox ships will even shoot you when in star map mode and the abilities and weapons only activate when in the atmosphere of a planet. - All enemy ships can do this. You can also try to ally with them, but every other empire on the galaxy will hate you!

Note: As long as you never stop at a planet but rather slingshot yourself by clicking on a new distination before reaching your current they won't shoot or catch up with you. However, you can't outrun them once you stop and they do catch up. A solution if this happens can be to land on a empty planet and drop a colony, then you would be able to heal, get a little brake to plan the path and a fresh start with no one shooting you until you stop again. Using the pause button makes this tactic a walk in the park though some might consider it cheating. Also, if you don't feel like figthing the Grox when making bases along the path, bring some terraforming tools (preferably the one use tools that don't use your energy) and do a driveby terraform. The Grox will dissapear once it reaches T1 (the base at least, and you don't need to drop animals/plants). If you make colonies on the way this will also be a great help when you make your way back out later.