Cheaters!

Now I know how the other races can build such speciality items like DIp Translators and a whole fleet of colony ships before I even have Impulse drive researched: I'm looking at a screen (espionage) showing the Altarians at -18228 bc. How can their treasury possibly BE so low?
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They must have gotten themselves into massive debt, either by buying lots of little things untill they couldn't pay their leases/tributes (it could take a while to get that low, though), or by buying one big thing all at once. How much does it cost to build diplomatic translators from scratch?
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How can their treasury possibly BE so low?
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They have rushuying something that cost lost of money, like Trade Goods (diplo translators are one).

And to prevent to savegame abuse, AI can rushbuy wonder/trad goods or reload.