what happened? (successful rebellion or so?)

[Empire of Terra Nova]

in one of my last games i've noticed a one system empire spawning named as "rebels of the commonwealth of man" and having a truce with them. the new empire was plantoid, the others humans. no other empire with their species existed, and no empire had been destroyed by then, so i guess they were pre-ftl at the beginning? the c of man then fought two wars against them where their system got occupied but they never annexed them. why so?

i would have loved to see how it went on but after having a fallen empire killing my immortal dictator of peace and order too soon (thought it would be wise dumping excess influence on claiming their systems...) i had to restart...

 

[Empire of Terra Nova]

in one of my last games i've noticed a one system empire spawning named as "rebels of the commonwealth of man" and having a truce with them. the new empire was plantoid, the others humans. no other empire with their species existed, and no empire had been destroyed by then, so i guess they were pre-ftl at the beginning? the c of man then fought two wars against them where their system got occupied but they never annexed them. why so?

i would have loved to see how it went on but after having a fallen empire killing my immortal dictator of peace and order too soon (thought it would be wise dumping excess influence on claiming their systems...) i had to restart...

good to know that someone is disagreeing with a question (amongst other stuff like movie ratings in some threads in the OT ) an actual answer to the question would be better, though

 

[GloatingSwine]

They may have uplifted them or they might have been primitives that got invaded and rebelled due to the happiness malus. The AI loves doing uplifts and it is really bad at managing stability so it gets quite a lot of rebellious planets that form one system minors that it is really bad at recapturing.

 

[Empire of Terra Nova]

They may have uplifted them or they might have been primitives that got invaded and rebelled due to the happiness malus. The AI loves doing uplifts and it is really bad at managing stability so it gets quite a lot of rebellious planets that form one system minors that it is really bad at recapturing.

yeah i guess they must have come from an uplift, but i saw the ai having captured the system twice (i didn't actually click to see if it was just the starport but i assume that it invaded the planet successfully as had been waging successful wars against other empires), it just didn't take it in the peace deal

 

[Lykus Cerebros]

the c of man then fought two wars against them where their system got occupied but they never annexed them. why so?

Did they also take the planet? Maybe they mismanaged their armies (sometimes happens).

The small AI might also have an ally that the CoM couldn't beat and that gave enough WS for a status quo.
If the ally was big enough it might have given them enough war exhaustion so that a forced status quo occurred. The capital is only taken through enforce demands so ina status quo they would keep it

 

[Empire of Terra Nova]

Did they also take the planet? Maybe they mismanaged their armies (sometimes happens).

The small AI might also have an ally that the CoM couldn't beat and that gave enough WS for a status quo.
If the ally was big enough it might have given them enough war exhaustion so that a forced status quo occurred. The capital is only taken through enforce demands so ina status quo they would keep it

the latter must have been the case then, or even the former but i guess the latter because they were also quite capable on conquering other empires

now i remember fighting a similar war where the ally was located behind my neighbouring rival which would not grant me military access so i ended up taking care of him first (or another time just cheesing around by declaring humiliation war and immediately surrender)