what's in the espionage picture?

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OK, so I've been playing for several weeks and seeing this popup occasionally:

http://www.galciv.com/images/screenshots/123200323411AM.jpg

I can't figure out what this is showing. I see a couple small people left-center, and something (a fly-man? a piece of furniture?) on the right. Am I just missing some way of seeing what's there? :notsure:
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I think it's a covert meeting between your spies and an alien representative on your payroll. He looks like he's dressed in armor with some type of breathing apparatus (a disguise?). OTOH, it could just be Jim Gardner in a bad cameo after "The Thing" (the original '57, where he looked like a giant carrot...)

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Now that it's blown up.. Looks like a guy wearing some kind of mask. Considering the context, he's probably a guard or mercenary working with the two hackers in the background. I don't quite get the mesh in the two eye holes, but there appears to be a breathing device where it's mouth should be. The horizontal lite on top of it's head could be a infra-red or light amplifying device. It's armor chest piece is a tad off center so it might be some kind of shield, that or a crappy editing job.

~SDC~
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Or, this is just a shot in the dark he could be the Spy?

Maybe he's spying on us, rather than us on them..

That's what I always assumed

~SDC~
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
For my part, I'd like to know what the icon is on the "Manufacturing Might" mini-graph button. All I can get out of it is a guy in a trench coat and sunglasses -- sort of an "Inspector Gadget."

RR
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
I've been running espionage against most of my advesaries, but have not ever seen this screen. Is this an event -or- a screen that pops up when you have invested huge amounts of $$ in espionage?

-Anxiety
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
He looks like the bounty hunter Princess Lea disguises as in ROTJ... What was his name? I forgot.

~SDC~
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
#9 01Anxiety,

It's a popup that notifies you regarding certain AI events that your agents have infiltrated. Usually things like "AI empire %!% has declared war on _____" or "AI empire %!% is destabilizing _____".

You can obtain these reports by funding espionage and reaching a minimum investment of ~1000gc's.

~SDC~
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
Does it only appear when you have the additional multimedia patch from StarDock? I don't remember ever seeing that image, but I only downloaded the multimedia update last night...
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
Wow- totally missed that multimedia pack. That probably explains it all...

-Anx