I was reading another thread here in the academy and a comment was made that led me to ponder my own game and a problem I am having. I have encountered and had several peaceful contacts (read: missiles exchanged in a show of...friendship), with a NPR race. Additionally, I have found several "populations" of the NPR except minus the population. Instead, simply listening posts are all I've found and captured. So the two questions I have are:
1.) Is there a recommend way of easily finding additional populations (with actual beings on them or not)
2.) When one of my survey ships gets near an enemy population with low thermal/EM, of course it gives a detection message in the game log. But, once the ship leaves there is no indication that something was found there later down the road. Short of writing it down, is there a way to flag a body as an enemy population center, for example?