In my current game I had the problem that the Thoraxians built a few buildings beneath my territory, so I blasted them with my barracks. Naturally that led to slightly negative attitude values. Not amused with that I wanted to improve relations a bit (or at least stop provoking them more), but my barracks kept auto-attacking the Thoraxian buildings in the neighboring territory, so the attitude value kept plummeting, getting the Thoraxians more and more pissed off. Is there a way to stop that (short of disabling the barracks, I might need them for other things), something like ending the war? Or is that something that the inclusion of proper diplomacy will fix?
By the way: What do Sonar mapping stations do?