I just finished playing a Twilight of Arnor beta game (0.93[b].002) and ran into a strange situation. The Snathi, a minor race, were being attacked by the Torians. I did not want to attack the Torians just yet and I was not ready to 'liberate' the Snathi myself, so I gave the Snathi a few ships to defend themselves with. Instead of moving the ships to defend their planet or to attack the Torians, the Snathi just left the ships there (in my space). I tried again later to give them some ships near their planet with the same results.

I was playing on Tough with no random intelligence, so I assumed they should have done something with the ships.