Quick Question: Can you colonize in "disputed territory"?

[BlackUmbrellas]

By "disputed territory", I mean systems which have that striping because multiple empires have colonized worlds within the same sphere of influence.

I know that this prevents you from building new mining stations- none of the "disputing parties" have claim to the space. But, can you colonize free worlds within it? Like, if there's a system with three planets, and Empire A owns one and Empire B another, can either empire colonize the third planet?

I'm asking out of curiosity, with vague ideas as towards a "custom scenario" I might write down for potential mod material.

 

[General Retreat]

Nope. Apparently you can invade and conquer primitives in contested (or neutral) space though, which definitely isn't WAD.

 

[mangalore]

I thought I had someone build a frontier outpost in a disputed system of mine (I owned it but uplifted a client race there). Was annoying as hell. I kind wish there'd be more disputed territory so things can get awry more often (aka reason for people to fight).

 

[Rotkohl]

I thought I had someone build a frontier outpost in a disputed system of mine (I owned it but uplifted a client race there). Was annoying as hell. I kind wish there'd be more disputed territory so things can get awry more often (aka reason for people to fight).

I had the same happen as well. Must have been a bug, though.