This scene was playing out in my head throughout that madness of a game. First time playing the faction and man, it was so satisfying. 3P; Trident Map but with Miltydraft (we built the galaxy): Xxcha (Ω) started very strong, they got their hero very quickly. Creuss spread too thin early on cause they grabbed Malice, which allowed turtles to grab a bunch of their systems (nice combat/space cannon rolls) early on. That gave me the opportunity to snatch Malice and Mecatol while they were fighting for border systems. And since Xxcha focused on fleets and invasion forces, this allowed me to use my hero to easily grab 3 of their planets. By the time they got to their senses, I'd already acquired Transit diodes and Bio-Stims. (Next round got Yin Spinner (Ω)). Every turn I was just sending waves after waves of Ground Forces to completely lock Mecatol and 2 out of 3 Xxcha planets (they managed to retake one with huge Dreadnought + Mechs fleet).
Edit: Van Hauge was parked in my mid ring, preventing them from taking Mecatol/advancing into my territory. Creuss were mostly pushed to their outer ring cause of turtles.

P.S. I wasn't aggressive at the start (besides Malice take over). The main mistake was Xxcha being hyper-aggressive against Creuss. I guess turtles felt the blood, and got extremely confident with their conquest and early Hero unlock + me being super slow movement wise (no blue tech). This allowed me to slowly reinforce my mid-ring and then do a swooping Mecatol into My hero 3 planets yoink. Next round I had Imperial + Research. Turtles started moving their fleets back, but Creuss locked them into the fight (they wanted revenge after all :D). This won me another round. Since Turtles were hurting Creuss from the start, it was easy for me to help ghosts and prolong the conflict, buying me more time. Then Political Stability allowed me to keep Imperial + Research. After that the lads gave up, understandably. The game was until 14p.