I was playing the Centrifuge map, 18 planets and 3 players.  I was the Tec against the Advent and Vasari. Somewhere along the way they allied and they started to take turns beating on me.  I had 2 planets and 2 asteroids colonized and they pushed me back to my homeworld but I fought back hard.  I started doing all my research in Military, started to pump out ships and eventually I took back my other planet but the onslaught was just too much and I lost the 2nd planet I had again.

My fleet of 3 capital ships and about a dozen cobalt frigates decided to shoot out to the stars for revenge.  Through some back and forth battles I managed to destroy 6 enemy capital ships during the whole campaign and countless smaller ships. During that time my homeworld fell and for a period of time I could jump to other systems.

Then for some reason my ships would only move in its current planet area, I could no longer jump to another system?  I really wanted to carry on the fight with just my fleet, hit and run tactics but the game would not let me.  Anyone know what is limiting my fleet from performing jumps? At that point I had 3 beat up Capital ships and 3 damaged frigates repairing ever so slowly .  I was 1 jump away from the Vasari home planet

2nd question, if I had the capital ship that could colonize, could I put myself back in the game by colonizing another planet?  I had already got the screen to either quit or keep on fighting but I choose to fight. 

Thanks for the input/feedback