So in my second game I found a system populated by what I heavily suspect is the Star Swarm. Lots of 800t, meson-armed 10,000km/s soldiers; some shield-600, 60,000t 1000km/s Queens, and some 6,000t vessels of unknown purpose. All bleed fluids when hit.
The first surprise to me is that there are a couple of wrecks of the 800t class every now and then. I thought the swarm does not leave wrecks? It certainly does not when I destroy the ships myself. What is causing these wrecks then? Natural death?
More puzzling however is the fact that these wrecks dont stay around for long. After a while I get the message that a wreck disappeared from the sensors and its gone. The same goes for the wreck of the unlucky gravsurvey ship that first encountered these hostiles. Initially I thought that maybe they were devoured by the 6,000t vessels, but I have full control over the system now. And the wrecks disappear even as my own task force is right on top of them. So why do the wrecks disappear?
Lastly, I noted there that this alien has different classes with exactly the same characteristics. I.e. there are two different classes of 800t ships, two classes of 60,000t ships and two of 6,000t ships, without apparent differences. Whats happening here? Two different hives? Maybe one swarm was generated by an NPR exploring, while the other was generated by me? I am puzzled.