First Contact criteria

[Suicide Junkie]

In order to maintain contact, there must be a path from any one of your planets to any one of their planets.

Just use one of your space yards (you did say "self-sustaining") to build some troops and take over a small colony in enemy territory. You can then reactivate your intel ops, or make peace and trade for the population.

[rdouglass]

Good idea SJ - I'll try that 'cept I'll have to build a transport first; my fleets have no cargo space

However, I have another question: Since we have no contact, will my fleets in enemy territory be ignored? I mean, I'm stomping some significant custruction and resource-producing sectors to glass.. Why is the AI ignoring me?? Is it just another flaw in the AI or is it coded somewhere? I suspect AI since a human player would not ignore (or forget) me....