I also like to keep a small flotilla of transports filled and stacked away in a corner. If those people thought they were unhappy on their overpopulated planet, imagine imagine how much they must enjoy living on a ship packed with billions of people doing nothing out in the middle of nowhere!
This is how things work in real life too. Sell a lot of 10 used games on eBay and you'll get 50 bucks. Sell them each separately and you might get $10 apiece.
Psyweapons and free starbase upgrades, hello! Who can resist?
That option was you you to surrender to them. Wouldn't it be a barrel of laughs if you could follow a game after doing that? Surrender a singificant empire to a minor race and see where they go with it and if they can win.
