[quote=Sukui]
Then despite the ten percent progress, it'll still be slow.Any colony new or old must've at least some technology one can retrieve. It'll be surprising if there were none.
[/quote]

There's plenty of tech lying around. Like gunpowder weaponry, late 90's computer tech, chemical rocket engines, and flip phones. 

The only reason they got into space so quickly was because they were united already, and there was a bunch of stuff left over in space. The Warp Drive was built early because the current era for the LCF is pretty much the late 90's. Which is actually when the Warp Drive was first theorized by Miguel Alcubierre. A negative energy factory happened to be left over, they reverse engineered it, and bam! Warp Drive.

In short, the LCF is extremely primitive by galactic standards. Without those antiproton streamers the LCF would have been conquered already. Again, if you want antiproton streamers, capture one of my ships. They don't have self destructs.