Without any action from me, my treasury suddenly went from having about 6000bc to about 4000bc in the hole, so I had to turn off all spending and use up a lot of turns to get back to a positive treasury. Is there something in DA that the game just hits you with a 10000bc loss as a kind of wild card? The only possibility I can think of for this happening in my game was that the galactic union had voted for compulsory trading of techs and I picked up about 8 techs automatically, no action on my part, no trading screen, just new techs showing up on the screen....is this a common feature of the game and do you have to pay for these techs thereby depleting your treasury?

thanks for your replies.