Ah, that makes sense. Honestly, glad to hear they were demanding something (even if it was a useless outpost.) The Orthin were definitely outgunning me (Phidi? Researching military tech? Never! ) so demanding systems for peace was the smart AI thing to do.

Weird interaction with accepting peace here, for some reason I lose control of my outpost at Haldor, despite there being no Orthin ships in the system. Is this because I was invited to war by the Humans, and thus the humans are choosing to cede my outpost?

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Uploaded it, it's game_9021. Also undid a bunch of turns to get a pic of it. (But submitted the log from the end of the game.)

So I decided to play humans for once, and had just saved a splinter ashdar colony from the pirates (who of course didn't join me, because I was humans). I went and built an outpost on another planet in the system, hoping that'd stop the Ashdar Imperials from bombing their brethren. (Don't remember ...