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Originally posted by oleg:
...It was a nice recon. station, since other race (it was AI) did not attack it for some reason...
It didn't attack 'cause you hadn't made first contact. IIRC you need to have a Warp Point path open between colonized planets to initiate First Contact. A ship won't do it...
I once had a Space Station with a SY on it zapped most of the way across the galaxy. I did not have a WP path back to my empire. I started building ships for quite some time and then started 'jabbing' the AI here and there - take out a new colony, waste a colony ship here and there, small fleets, etc. The AI acted as if I wasn't there at all - totally ignored me.
Unfortunately, I had no population so I couldn't settle anywhere there. However, I have started games in little tiny corners of the map (blocked in by limited WP's) with only 3 or 4 systems and got out that way - build a few extra colonizers and just send 'em back and forth between a few Resupply Depots. If you have random events turned on, sometimes you get lucky and one (colony ship) gets zapped to another (hopefully empty and 'fruitful') system to liberate (read 'plunder').....