I've just run across a system which a sensor buoy has determined has two separate alien populations on the same body. The intelligence window lists them as two separate civilizations each having their own flag yet sharing the same race picture. My first thought was "This is !Fun!" but since then I've been limited to 1 day increments for over two months, due to "potential fleet interception."
I deliberately set this game up so that NPR's would not generate other NPR's or Spoilers so that at most I'd have to deal with NPR's I'd already discovered fighting it out, but they don't even seem to be fighting because the increments are always exactly 1 day(reported as "potential fleet interception") unless interrupted by something my own ships are doing. So I'm assuming that if they aren't going to fight it out between themselves, my game is doomed to one day increments unless I do something drastic like SM delete this system. Has anyone else encountered something similar or have any advice?