Astreus is really pissing me off, the thing used to be able to take some shots wich was awesome. Also it used to be able to move on the air-level, wich was also awesome. At the moment the unit is really a pain in the *** to use, it feels totally awefull and it even made me lost a planet because if you drop a unit, or anything on a planet, its going to hover right above it in order to protect the dropped unit from being easily selected. You will then accidently select the astreus and try to move it to get it out of your sight and you will quickly find that it will get even more in your face and blocking even more of your clicks because it goes right up into orbit! Modders, do something with this please, make the unit fun and playable again!
What I do to select the unit that just landed is to shift click and drag. That selects everything. If I'm trying to select a fabricator, I then just give it a build command since I can give it a build command no matter what else I have selected. If I'm trying to select combat units, then I just right click on the Astraeus icon in the bottom left hand corner. It's far from ideal, but it gets the job done for now. mostly... I share your frustration though. I lost a GW match against the red commander the other day because I couldn't get the Astraeus to do what I wanted and lost a lot of time waiting for them to travel back and forth between planets.
