I have contacted an NPR in my current game.
I shockingly established communications with a warship guarding a jump point (my diplomatic ship hadn't even made it to the system). Does this make my diplomatic ship useless now? When it caught up to an alien ship, they asked it to leave.
The aliens have told me to vacate an empty system next to what I am sure is their homeworld. That is fine with me. However, they keep jumping into one of my systems and running around.
Is there any way to tell them to stop? Can I claim a system the way they claimed an empty one?
What are the consequences if I blow these (probably) survey ships up? Is that automatic war or will they get the message and stop coming?
When I played years ago, I seem to remember I could scare them out of the system by activating a fire control, targeting them, but not opening fire (they would jump right back out of the system). Am I remembering right?
Thanks!