Maxing out the ship bays' number of fighters and they do all the work. Later when they die fast, pump the fighter rebuild and they just keep coming out. Max the repair drones and you don't even need to be playing.
This game seems glitched for me. I can't control my bubble as it just seems to keep flying to the right over and over. Sometimes he'll stop, but only after I've traveled into an area where I would die fast, and just get tossed back and forth between two hard bubblezones.