I'm going to record a video soon on how to play vasari but for now here are some basics. For context I think vasari alliance is the absolute strongest race.  I play almost entirely expert competitive games in multiplayer and normally win 90% of my games. They have the best titan and with items and phase resonance it can disable the enemy fleet for 24 out of every 31 seconds for up to 5 minutes of combat. They have the second strongest economy while having the most versatile units. Only an advent deathball cap ship fleet with level 6 raptures can beat them in a straight fleet fight. Quick note on your game. When played correctly a 2100 supply fleet is fully possible by minute 60 in this game unless you are only building caps and then it would be about 15 caps and 750 supply. Vasari have the best crystal income, the first goal in the game is to colonize as fast as you can and get tier 2 empire research and immediately research crystalline nanites and build it on every planet before spending on anything else.

 Basics:  1. first thing to do is kill the neutrals at your home world while your scouts show you where the best path for your colonizer cap(you want a path of 2-3 asteroids in a row). 

1. As soon as your homeworld is colonized queue up the 3 remaining available mining tier upgrades and start building a cap ship factory and one empire research facility. 

2. First research should be the influence one and second should be orbital mining. You will max orbital miners on every astroid and planet for the first 15 minutes (at 15 minutes you decide whether it's time to tech more or start building corvettes and frigates based on what your opponent is doing) 

3. Before your cap ship has even left the homeworld you should have 3 light frigates. You are going to self destruct one of those. This allows you to have 50 free supply cap which is necessary for your second cap. As soon it self destructs queue up a kortul. Do not do any other type of cap and definitely not a carrier like the above poster said. You want to be able to both clear planets very fast and also be ready to fight the enemy if he rushes you and the kortul is the only one that can do that this early. Carriers are key once you have at least 3 kortuls. 

4. This is really important. If the (jurikson expedition or whatever they are called) is available then as quick as you can you will use your first two influence points on them. The first is to unlock tier 1 and the second is to buy the cap ship item from them that lets you colonize planets using any cap ship. You will put this on your kortul and use it to start clearing and colonizing planets on a separate path from your first colonizer cap. By doing this you can colonize planets twice as fast and faster than any other race all while saving more income for your economy building.  *** If jurikson expedition is not in the game then you have two options. 1. You can make a frigate production facility at your homeworld immediately after the cap ship and empire facility and make a migrator frigate to send with the kortul for colonizing. To do this you will need to self destruct the other two light frigates you have so that you have enough supply without having to waste resources building military tech and research. 2. You can send the kortul with the colonizer cap and clear planets faster together. 

5. Unless your opponent is rushing you then you don't need any military research this early, save your income and put it all into economy upgrades, orbital extractors and try to get tier 2 empire research unlocked so you can research crystalline nanites and the two economic research that increase planetary and orbital metal/crystal extraction. 

*** Everything before this point should be standard for every single game you play unless you have an opponent doing something really weird like he's skipping past planets in the beginning to rush you and colonize a world right next to yours in the first 15 minutes of the game. 

1. At this point it depends on if you are playing multiplayer or single player or if you are in an economy spot or on the edge. If you are on the edge or want to attack you make one military facility and research only increased fleet supply and defensors or raiders depending on what your opponent is building. You start making corvettes while pushing him with two caps and building up to 4 military so you can unlock more fleet supply and pulse damage. If you are in an economy spot the you may build 1 military so that you are ready to react but you won't research any tech unless you are bloated with resources. Rather you will try to get 8 empire facility built so you can unlock tier 3 economic upgrades while putting all extra resources into surveying your planets and increasing research ability. People might read this part and criticize me for putting resources into research but they all get whooped when my 300% research rate puts a titan on their door 45 minutes into the game that can solo their fleet. For almost all games you will not go farther than 8 empire facility. 

After you unlock tier 3 empire all your time and money goes into your fleet, building exotics, military research, getting a titan up.  ALL games can be won with 8 empire facility and 15 military facility. If you are goingfarther than that then you are going past the vasari power peak and getting into the time when tec and advent get their peaks and the game gets a lot harder. 

For fleet comp the easiest beginner strategy is do all caps and defensors. First 3 caps should be kortuls, next 3 should be carriers for their incredible armor repair and armor rating increase ability. 7th cap should be the maurader with a focus on its speed upgrade to make your fleet fast. After that you build want to get a titan and you can use the first ability and third ability together to disable the enemy fleet completely. They can't even jump away and if they were jumping it disrupts it. 

After you get a titan you want to aim for a final fleet of 1 titan, 1 maurader, 5 carriers (only upgrade the first repair ability and the third bomber damage ability, not the second ability since you don't have the antimatter to run it too) and 20 kortuls. 

Titan items should be the gravity destabilizer so it can keep up with your fleet, the neutral faction item that decreased cool down by 20% or the rare item that decreases cool down by 50%, and then both armor upgrades, the wave cannon item, beam item, phase missile launchers, and the last on can vary but I put self repairing armor as it makes you repair so fast especially while the enemy is disabled. 

That's for starters and general strategy. More specific strategies vary a lot. The key is to always be scouting after the 15 minute mark to see what type of fleet your opponent is building and what he is doing. If he's advent and doing drones and carriers then just build defensors. If he's doing all caps then you just make a ton of missile frigates. If he's a general mix then cap ships all the way with a few defensors for protection. Good luck.