How did they do that?

[Spyder]

I closed myself off from the rest of the world and began developing the 12 or so systems under my control. After awhile, I notice that all of a sudden, one of my INNER systems was in dispute! I wandered over there and lo-and-behold there were some satellites there from a race of critters which I had never met!

No new wormholes, no warning, just abracadabra! and poof! they were there.

Anyone have an explanation?


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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

[raynor]

My best guess is that one of the AI's built a colony on a 'moon' in your empire, and you didn't notice it. I hate moons.

[henk brouwer]

There's a random event that can take one of your ships or unit Groups and transfer it to the other end of the galaxy, no warp points or engines required. it's called space anomoly or something.

I guess that's what must have happened to those sattelites..

[Triumvir Emphy]

that would be the only way,... the same way i got stuck with rebuilding a plate base for a sphere world after one of my bases got "teleported" across the galaxy 5 systems over 8(

[Spyder]

Ewwwww.....that's tacky

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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

[rdouglass]

Another thing that may have happened - a random event. IIRC, the "planet breaking away and forming an independant empire" is not just an Intel Op (Anarchy Groups), but a random event. However, I'm a little suspicious of you not getting a Log message. I have had that random event thing happen to me, but I always got a Log message.

PS.. I too have had bases zapped across the galaxy, but I also have been locked into 2-3 systems early in a game and had a colony ship transported by that "spacial anomoly" thing across the galaxy and suddenly was blessed with more systems to pilage and a strategic advantage by being able to "outflank" many AI later in the game. Now THAT was COOL....