Sabotage
From Astrolords
You can Sabotage other players and slow its producing of spies. This will protect your spies on enemy's asteroid from counterespionage.
There are different goals of sabotage: Cyborgs factory, producing ammunition, repair of guns and radars, mining of crystals.
Once you set to Espionage, you'll lose 50% of your current number of spies, no matter of enemy's spies number.