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If you have the resources you should start building pulsar gunships and torpedo frigates at the beginning of this mission. Don't forget to harvest resources as quickly as you can so you can get the economy going. Before too long you will be attacked by a group of movers. They're somewhat vulnerable to the torpedoes and pulsars. Get up at least ten pulsars and five torpedo frigates; retire any ships other than these for the moment. Really. Almost anything else is useless against them.
After you take down your first wave of movers you'll be greeted by yet another, smaller wave. The countdown for the mothership's hyperspace drive will reach zero before a third attacks, most likely. When the countdown is over the mothership will jump to the other side of the area. You'll need to quickly rally your fleet to her to save her from attacking movers. Be sure to move your carriers too, as they are quite vulnerable to the movers' weapons fire.
Soon after the mothership jumps back in you'll discover a disabled mover. You'll be instructed to use a resource collector to retrieve the mover. It's much simpler to let your other collectors keep working and build another from the mothership. Use your pulsar gunships to escort the new collector over to the derelict mover and retrieve it. Upon returning it to the mothership you'll be given the opportunity to research anti-mover weaponry. Do so immediately.
With the advent of anti-mover weaponry the movers' armor drops from a beastly 5000 to a more managable 1000. Your ships will have a much easier time with them at this point. When the second countdown reaches zero the mothership will hyperspace out once more. Eliminate the remaining movers and wait for the mothership to come back.
What follows is a painfully slow battle involving dozens of movers. They come at you a few at a time and you have to keep them off the mothership until it reaches its destination. I spent maybe ten minutes waiting on the super-slow mothership to reach the derelict. You really don't have much to worry about here, for when the mothership finally reaches it, the movers are deactivated and the mission completes.