[geoschmo]

Loser, I have a theory about what might have happened. I reran the turn in which UE took your ship form you, but I changed his orders to remove any crew insurrection intel projects. Your orders I left alone, using the same .plr file you submitted. When I ran the turn this time of course the ship was did not mutiny, but it was also not scrapped. What it was was unmothballed.

Is it possible that you meant to scrap the ship, but accidentally unmothballed it instead? And then you just had the rotten luck and bad timing of it being insurrected out from under you on the same turn you unmothballed it? That would be technically possible since intel is done after construction in the game phase. This would explain why a ship he took from you that was mothballed the turn before was unmothballed, fully fueled, and had one turns worth of training when he took possesion of it. The alternative would be a bug, you are correcct, and a fairly serious one to boot.

Assuming you are just accidentally unmothballed it as I am suspecting, this does leave teh question of whether a mothballed ship can be taken by insurrection. Now that i am testing it I think it cannot. It makes more sense that it cannot, but I guess I never thought it through all the way because I always assumed previously that it could. Has anyone ever seen a mothballed ship insurrected?