Am I nuts or did this really happen?

[geoschmo]

I had assumed that once I gave a colony ship an order to colonize a planet, it set its course and then followed that course regardless.

I had some colony ships enroute to the other side of the quadrant. I opened a warp point into the system they were passing through that cut some time off of there trip. I was planning on the next turn redirecting them to use the new warp point.

Lo and behold when I hit end turn they changed course automatically to take advantage of the new warp point!

I didn't think they would do that.

Anybody else ever see this happen before?