So, I was playing a big huge map with eight races on tough. After a period of time under harashment I got the ball rolling and wave a brutal war against the Thailan Empire (the strongest faction).
I knocked out half of their colonies when I received a message saying some baka engineer unearth a special peace keeping force and they will active all over the galaxy destroying any warships
that are ourside their border. I said "screw this, I'll smoke these tree huggers just the same" ... maybe not, I checked their ship and wow, these guys are built specially against me. I'm the only one using beam, and their beam armor is 4 times my biggest gun on my biggest ship, and their missle make my armor looks like a joke.
So, here is the thing, I high tale all my ship back into my territory, since my ships are expensive and I don't have a lot. Guess what, they chased back into my territory and rape my things. My starbases that are all well within my border got creamed, my ships in orbit of
my planets are hammered. And it's not just me. The Thailan is attacked also, these peace keeping force chased my ships from the planet I was about to attack just to attack that planet themselves, the Altarian also got smoked, the Iconian who are not at war with anyone (too weak) also have their butts kicked.
So is this normal, these fleets attack anyone and anywhere indiscriminately!!