Player One (West) to play
Player One will win in two turns. Player One is pretty obviously ahead, but winning in just two turns is a little tricky.
Capturing both of Alpha's reds seems like the obvious choice, but that's a mistake since Alpha can then regain control of their home with a red catastrophe. Instead, One must capture Alpha's r2 and one of the g1 ships. Then, Alpha must cause a red catastrophe to prevent One winning by capture:
But One still wins with a green catastrophe of their own:
This position arose in Homeworlds Theater Episode Five after Andy and John have taken over for the original players. Andy (having taken over for Player One) won slightly slower than possible in three moves, starting with the color change
In a conversation on the Discord server, "VIVIT" suggested analyzing the puzzle position, and "thelast19digitsofpi" found the correct solution.