[greghacke]

Tried a technique to monitor my "neighborhood" and found a few problems...

I explore with a medium transport carrying small satelites. I leave the satelites in the systems I pass through to maintain a monitor view of what happens. Now, the problem... When other empires enter these, I recieve a message regarding First Contact, but I can not "see" into these sectors. I see my ship, but nothing else. Just to make sure I wasn't in err, I sent my ship back through and found my satelite in place along with the colony of another empire (which I didn't see until I brought my ship through...)