I shouldn't have to deal with a 1.2M fleet by the midgame when Cetana's colossus is 1.1M
Call it a skill issue, but the during the War in Heaven event, the militarists at my border showed up with a 1.2M fleet and several 300k ones, and started just wrecking my shit. By midgame. The best anyone (me) in the galaxy could muster at that point in the game was 250K.
Cetana came with a 1.1M colossus and about 12 280k fleets, which by that point was much more manageable (after I used console commands to wipe the WiH empires, because fuck that noise)