Well stupid question.
Not wanting to play another game where I just lob hundreds of missiles at enemy ships I decided to play "melee" this time, using mainly laser weapons.
Now, after 60 years, where all I found were abandoned ruins and apparently ownerless minefields, I finally encountered my first hostile ship (apparently precursor).
Problem is, I can't get into firing range. I know my laser ships are designed correctly, I've successfully used them to clear out minefields, and I have used lasers and mesons as PD before. My ships are almost 3 times as fast as the enemy. They should be able to rush in and shred that thing, but no matter what I try they just won't.
They follow it around at roughly 10 million kilometers and are reluctant to go any closer.
I tried follow, move to, playing around with the minimal distance, looked for a "close in" order (didn't find any).
I'm out of ideas.