I wonder if we could have sector intelligence reports attached to the GNN.It might be tied to intelligence satellites or if you simply have a sector sensor platform.Would have a go to button.
It could list such things as:
Space pirate sightings
Space monster sightings(if there are any)
Freighter traffic
Enemy and ally fleet movements.
Starbases and of what type.
Influence totals for each race and change in influence since last turn.
Maybe assign a value of most important to empire based on homeworld,economic output
manufacturing etc.
Or the player could assign the importance to each one.
Would include the ability to pre check off sectors of high interest.
Maybe too statistically anal but it would give you that I'm looking over my reports feel that the other stats have.