Solar Systems with lots of asteriods but no planets

[rdouglass]

I once found a group of alien sat's off in a distant system while exploring. When I clicked on the empire flag, it gave me no description of any empire.

Could that have been the same issue? (EDIT: the issue of no planets left for the empire) Or could it have been due to it just being a sat and I had still not made contact with the empire?

If it was just 'not making contact', does that mean that you can't make contact with an empire thru sat's and mines and only thru ships / planets???? Been playing this game since SEII and haven't even thought about this one....

[This message has been edited by rdouglass (edited 28 March 2001).]