This does happen occasionally. Its the nature of the beast, sadly. I hear sometimes people will help you recover your database. I crashed my first game and broke it, but my current one has gone on for 80 years with no problem. But probably want to take the bug discussion up to the bug thread.
On topic:
The fleet has found a race of aliens who use small fighter craft. The expeditionary force is massing and preparing to burst on the scene. ON the way, however, the sensor ships picked up a pprecursor vessel in a system with a ruin: who knows how long its been there, monitoring us? The fleet was too slow to catch it-- it maintained distance, but a wing of FACs closed the gap and popped it with a single salvo.
On other fronts, the search for the El Dorado is ongoing. We've found a few small, uninhabited colonies and have enslaved about 2 million el doradans... but no sign has been found of where the heck they came from or where their fleet is. The troop transports that dropped the combat brigade on the el dorado detected a fleet of 12 transports that suddenly showed up in orbit; they fired their antimissile missiles as they fled destroying six of the transports.
When the fleet arrived from two systems over, the transports were gone-- and we have no idea where.
ITS A MYSTERY, MAN.