I posted the following before in the 1.4 thread (https://forums.galciv2.com/index.aspx?aid=133988&p=2), but everyone was busy talking about something else, so I figured I'd ask here.

I have a few questions/comments:

1. In my current game, I was sizing up the Yor Collective when I noticed they hadn't colonized Iconia V for some reason. I checked their star system, and it turns out that they have a very good reason: It wasn't there. I know it used to be there; I have an old save file with it. What happened to Iconia V?

2. Concerning unarmed defenders: I know that they are built to stop transports from just going in to thake planets. However, why are some built with defense modules? If I understand the combat system correctly, a Huge ship filled with nothing but Invulnerability Fields (is that what the ultimate shield is called) will be destroyed by one Tiny ship armed with one Particle Beam eventually; the only difference is that it'll take a very long time in the tactical viewer.

3. What determines the political party of various alien races? I see that they're not all Federalists anymore like I seem to recall them being previously, but there's still an awful lot of Federalists, a couple of War Party members, and one Pacifist (the Altarian Republic) in my game now (as Terran Alliance vs. all but Iconians and Thalans). Also, while I can see the Drengin for the War Party, the other one is the Torians, who don't really strike me as the War Party type.