Playing Aurora 6. 21. 22 years in I defeat a major fleet in Procyon resulting in 14 enemy ships wrecked. I send my salvage ships to clean and up and end up with loads of Ship components and tech data
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I send the ship components back in freighters, but the tech data does not arrive on earth until the salvage ships return. Between the time I salvaged a wreck and got 800 RP toward ECM-1 and the salvage ship returns to earth, my scientist complete research on salvage 1, aided in part by the ship components brought by the freighters as they were recovered.
When the salvage ship got to earth and tried to download the 800 RP on ECM-1, Aurora deleted my colony on Earth (my capital, home to 850 million people, nearly all of my industrial capacity, research capacity and ship yards)
. This happened yesterday afternoon after a long weekend of play (approximately 2 years of game time since my last back up).
I made a copy of the stevefire file and tried to set earth back up, but all of my ongoing research and researchers have disappeared.