Posted by: kilo
« on: December 18, 2020, 07:43:56 AM »So the actual mechanic is that once a colony surrenders in a system, there is a chance for every and all ships in the system to surrender alongside the colony. Ships in systems without colonies will not surrender until the very last colony of that NPR surrenders and in some cases not even then.
This can lead to Bad Things to you as well because if you're fighting in a system with your colony in it and your colony gets bombarded hard, it will surrender to the enemy and might cause some of your ships in the system to flip sides alongside it.
I did not attack any colonies. I just met these guys when expanding outward from Earth or to be more precise, they found me as they jumped into a system in which I installed a bunch of listening posts. My bet is they are the starting NPR, as they were bringing survey ships, jump point stabilization ships, laser cruisers and troop transports.
At the moment I was simply backtracking their route they took with the intention of finding their home world by monitoring jump points. The engagement happened minutes away from a jump point in a system that has no habitable planets at all.