[dogscoff]

OK, so I sent a boarding ship to the Clukruk homeworld and repossessed my troop transport. Sure enough, they had thoughtfully transferred a few hundred infantry troops onto it. Very handy.

I had a look at the facilities while I was there, and I think maybe I can see why they haven't built any ships since I gave them the galactic expansion tech- they are busy upgrading all their homeworld facilities. Half of them are Spaceport cities (VI) and the other half are labelled major city (advanced) (X). I assume they are upgrading from the former to the latter. If this is the case though, when they are finished they will lose their resupply ability.

Of course it's also possbile that they upgraded half their facilities from X to VI when I gave them resupply ability, but then when I gave them galactic expansion they started trying to upgrade to cultural centres or something stupid like that...

Anyway, I'll drop in again in 10 turns time to see how they are getting on. If they are making any progress I'll give them a chance to finish and produce a ship or two before I sweep in and conquer them. Aren't I generous? Besides, I need some time to build an invasion force to counter the 11000 troops they've assembled.