I was disassembling some plasma torpedoes when I suddenly was given Capacitor Recharge Rate 20. I was at Recharge Rate 6 and was not researching it.
The event log recorded it as Research into Capacitor Recharge Rate 20 completed on Earth. The two entries right after that stated that I had been given Capacitor Recharge Rate 8 & 10 from a friendly race.
I downloaded the event log to a text file and tried to discover how I got the tech. Here are the records.
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Human,Sol,Research into Capacitor Recharge Rate 20 completed on Earth
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 4 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 4 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 5 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 5 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 6 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 6 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 8 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 8 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 10 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 10 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Human,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 8 has been provided to us by Ciutric Hegemony
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Ciutric ,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 12 has been provided to us by Terran Federation
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Mendoza,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 12 has been provided to us by Mendoza Aliens #1109
17th October 2053 16:09:01,Human,Unknown,Information on Capacitor Recharge Rate 10 has been provided to us by Ciutric Hegemony
Anyone know what happened? Some strange fortuitous bug? I don't share Tech with Ciutric or anyone so it's very strange. What is also strange is after destroying a large number of invader ships my diplomatic rating went from negative to over 40,000. I could set them as allies, but I don't think they would return the favor.