It's three years into my brand spanking new game. A stable wormhole opens up directly in Mars' orbit perfectly. Out pop several Beirut class alien ships capable of a moronically high speed of 8000km/s.
Really? Only three years into the game and the aliens are already sporting ships at 8K per second? They also had a thermal signature of 960.
If this seems a bit silly for a topic, well this is my first ever contact with other aliens. And also, I lost their signatures.
Update: Strength 10 shields. AND THEY'RE MOVING AT TEN THOUSAND KILOMETERS PER SECOND!
Game over: They came in and bombarded us to hell. The game barely begun and they opened up a stable wormhole early on in the game, came in with a fleet, and bombarded us for no good reason. This is on normal difficulty. I don't know what to think of this besides being chump changed by the game on a MASSIVE level.
I have no clue if it was an NPR or if it was something else completely. If it WAS an NPR, I would have to say that was incredibly cheap and unfair, being able to pull off such feats only a few years into the game. BAH!
New Game Edit: Holy crap. I was transporting infrastructure to mars for the very first time, and for some extremely bizarre reason, civilians have set up a mining colony on a surveyed asteroid that I didn't even make a colony or anything on. I am currently loading a mass driver to that locale. But um, civilian mining colonies...how exactly can I interact with these industrious little guys? HAHAHA! Now a new shipping line has been made and one of the companies already launched a newly designed colony ship! Holy Cow! This game is getting really interesting! But I am still stuck with 20 labs, expanding to 25