[Barnacle Bill]

I agree you should have some info as to where the other side went. "Igo-ugo" is an abstraction but in "real life" you would know where they were when they dropped off your radar. That was the gist of my comment - that if you saw them enter a storm & didn't see them come out, you would know they're in there (asuming they didn't cloak & come then out or something like that). So, the only way you could "hide in a storm" to the extent nobody knows you are in there is if you went in when nobody was there to see.

I totally agree on the "allies" thing. This is probbly my #1 pet pieve about SE4 as it exists today (and about SE3 before it). "Allies" should not be able to claim or colonize in a system you already claim, unless it was already "contested" at the time the treaty was signed. You should be allowed to fight in that sort of contested system, regardless of what treaty applies elsewhere.