Why is there no info about Federation fleets?

[wergy]

Ok so my last game was just ruined because I attacked a federation of two with both "Pathetic" fleet power. I'm steamrolling their planets then suddenly two federation fleets, twice of my whole fleet power each are spawning in. I recheck their info, still both pathetic.
For the love of God, why can't we get event he slightest idea of the fleets of the enemy federation? It's slightly upsetting when tens of hours of a campaign is ruined like this.
Oh yeah, did I mention the enemy never settles for anything less than total annihilation?

 

[Malecord]

Could it be a bug?

In my last game an AE is periodically rated as pathetic. The thing is this "pathetic" AE has something like 3 fleets of 1M power plus some small 200K patrols here and there. It sits around 4M power total overall and needless to say it's the strongest force in the galaxy.

I though it was a kind of buffer overflow due to the ludicrous strength it accumulated. But maybe is something else?