While I like the setting as a galactic community actually being here for support I'm really at odds with the tech system.
It sounds like something invented for an old 4X videogame and has little connections with the realities of space warfare.
Kinetic and laser weapons can kind of make sense.
Rest? It's just a complicated rock-paper-scissors game which has no place in a freeform RP.
Besides, I can't really see the need to balance tech in freeform NRPs. At best you would need to step up when there's an unhealthy arms race going on.
Situations like this are handled by a "tech GM" if necessary.
Your weapon vs defense system reminds me of Galactic Civilizations II.

Also if we always make such small nations, did anyone ever thought about the idea of focusing a space NRP on a smaller area? Say, a few hundred star systems because FTL doesn't allow you much beyond it?
See Babylon 5 as an example where travel of a hundred lightyears could take weeks at times and they require established routes to travel.

Anyways, sorry if this sounded like a rant. I hope you guys enjoy this game.