As mentioned before the game (2.1.1) created a new race "Civilians" when I tugged a repair shipyard through a JP, it declared they had been spotted as if an alien race and the intel window showed them with 10k diplomacy points and all race images identical to my player race.
Just now I ordered a troop drop on a precursor planet cleared of ships and the game gave the victory to them but the planet and its contents were transferred to Civilians, see screeny. Is that normal? Its my first invasion.
I ended up with two colonies on the same planet both named Iota Horologii IV after the planet, one marked with 2xDST and the other containing a ruined outpost and my troops. I was able to retrieve the troops and drop them in the 2xDST pop then delete the empty pop and the 2xDST pop showed the ruined outpost buildings so I didnt lose anything but am just confused about what happened?
Is this a bug?