Cevohcam, when you saw that behavior in the past games, were the Vengance ships fantastically weaker than all your combat ships and well-established bases?

1 laser attack, small hull, and thats it. None of my star bases had any defenses as they were all well within my own teritory, and I had strong boarders. Typically my ships have 50-200 attack/defense of each type.

I'm guessing then that the stats for the post-Assassin swarm have little or nothing to do with the human player's stats.

Even with my off-spec system, I'm pretty sure that this event needs help (or removal). After some nutbars from "my" civ assisinated Alan Bradley, I had to destroy about half the Terrans' non-Vengance ships and take a healthy chunk of their oldest worlds, but I got them to lay off by the end of the second post-event week. We'd been allies since close to the time I got Alliance tech, which was pretty early.

Now I need to see if that was a tedium-spawning mistake--I'm no closer to making the Yor my ally, the Terrans are along way from Friendly now, and this game I turned off tech victory b/c I wanted to go for an alliance win and have never bothered to finish a military victory.