I think Aurora is deviously engaging in meta-gaming activities to drive me insane to assist the Dregluk in their struggle against the Republic!
This is the situation (hypothetically):
I have a force of Republican ships sitting off of a Dregluk population (never mind which one, right now <G>). They are waiting for another force to join them, ETA approximately 4 days. It is taking forever to advance the time enough for the new force to join the party, and I just assumed it was Aurora being Aurora. When I actually started paying attention to why I was getting so many interrupts, I noticed a pattern. A single Dregluk freighter was repeatedly entering and leaving thermal contact range. I changed the settings on the system map and checked, and sure enough that little bugger is sitting right on the line which marks the range at which my fleet can detect a target with a thermal signature of 1000. It is just sitting there, moving back and forth across the line, repeatedly, and has been doing so for the last 32 hours, every seven and a half hours. All of the other freighters fled, and are still moving away. All except this one, which is sitting right where it can cause an interrupt. Now, either the Dregluk have gained more sentience in real life than they have ever evidenced in my game, or Aurora itself is screwing with me, because there is no earthly reason for that ship to sit there, in that spot, moving back and forth.
I'm tempted to send a couple of HuK's to kill it, but I suspect it is within AMM range of the planet and that will result in the HuK's being swarmed by AMM's. I'm fairly certain I can defeat the Dregluk, eventually, but I don't think I can defeat a self-aware Aurora. Steve, what have you done?
Kurt