I encountered something weird (bug?) in GC2.
I had Friendly relationship with Thalans. In Huge Galaxy they were on the topright place. My enemies were on the bottomleft side. I am in the middle. I was conquering the enemies planets one by one.

Suddenly I got a message from Thalans that said because of the presence of my TROOPS in his neighbourhood, I entered WAR with Thalans.

Huh? I didn't even have a ship in the Thalans territorium. And I had only two TROOPS left. Now I found out that my TROOPS were indeed floating around a THALAN influence starbase (non-functional) in the enemy territory!

I think this is a very stupid reason to start war, because of a troop in the vicinity of a starbase that is non-functional and far, far away!!! Perhaps a bug in the calculation of GC2?