And now you know why so many players play with multiple player races. 
To be fair to the poor NPRs, Steve is making some changes in 2.0 to help the AI including adding some logic to combine their fleets before giving battle, which should at least help with the whole destroying-them-piecemeal problem that makes them so easy to kill. Still, as long as NPRs lack tactical cleverness or any ability to adapt to changing circumstances on the battlefield, they will be easy for a seasoned player to beat - or even a new player in cases like this.
Yes, now I understand
Although I don't really like playing "with myself".
In general, there are 2 problems with AI: the separation of fleets (and their behavior ...) and ship templates. I got the feeling that the enemy had a template from somewhere when I found it (or from the very beginning of the game) and has not changed since that time. I cannot explain otherwise such weak railguns ...
The game provides a huge number of options for waging war, from long-range missiles (as in my favorite space opera by David Weber "Honor Harrington") to clouds of fighters, but against NPR any, the most clumsy tactics will do.
Maybe there are some ways to complicate the game in terms of military operations?
I really liked the concept that you need to predict, study the enemy, adapt to his technologies (which are unknown), try to achieve maximum advantage - and in order to understand how, you need to conduct battles during which the capabilities of the enemy are revealed. But alas, the logic of NPR behavior and the templates of their ships definitely need to be improved.
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