quick question: haven't found confirmation anywhere else for this, but if you play as Legio, can you eventually buy or create the Daemon ships and put them in your fleet? I wanna do a run with them but only if thats possible to do
I mean, you can always ambush their strike or invasion fleets and recover the spicy daemon toasters. There are always plenty of them to feast on! The only thing is, that is a task meant for an end game campaign objective, since you have to build a special anti-daemon excision fleet of doom if you don't want them having any chance of defeating you.
You could start with the Nexerelin option that lets you recover automated ships (I think you also start with neutral standing with the REDACTED) for free and build your campaign from there. When you get to the stage of recovering daemon droneships, be sure to bring with you ion weapons loadouts, speedy ships and/or those hull classes with favorable ALPHA STRIKE damage potential. Also, I'm pretty sure Sierra and Courser would aprove of such an enticing high risk-high reward training exercise!