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Hopefully this will happen soon

You could be more specific as they're all fun

I've been putting off playing as the Torians and Arceans, waiting to see if achievements for them were coming.  In my current game I'm winning while not building any military ships of my own (except for transports), just relying on mercenaries hired and ships found in anomalies - that might make for a good Steam achievement.

Well that depends on your play style and your victory conditions, doesn't it?  In my current game I'm soon going to ally with the Arceans, Altarians, and Iridium, and the powerful mercs I've hired look like they'll be plenty strong enough to take on the Drengin.

Like I said, play style - map size, map settings, etc.  In my current game the Drengin only have 70 ships, not all of them combat, and all of them far below the tech levels of my mercs.  And just because I suggested that as a possible Steam achievement doesn't mean it needs to be possible to accomplish in all possible games, just that it might be something interesting to play for.

And anyway, you could get that achievement without ever going to war, winning by alliance, influence, research, or ascension without ever firing a shot (except perhaps for some pirates).

I have an all peace game going on.  It wasn't my idea, but it worked out that way.  It is an excessive size map with abundant anomalies.  I have a large set of ships gained from those anomalies.  The first one came from the first survey, then I bought two survey mercenaries.  Then an anomaly gave me a survey ship.  As I developed more territory and found more anomalies the amount of ships I was collecting started snowballing.  I can easily envision someone with more stubbornness than sense pulling off a conquest victory without building a war ship, especially with a scavenging faction.

Thanks very much @Fate.  I have no idea how difficult it would be for the developers to implement the idea, but I thought it might provide a bit more interest in the Mercenaries DLC.  Which, by the way, I am enjoying a lot.