...still in my 3rd game, Nightmare/Harder, and recently added a 5th race to the Federation; their hate of me was 400+, but I'd managed to get them in thru convincing by another race. Result: I'm hit with MASSIVE amounts of pirates. Which is fine, killing pirate bases is easy - but just how many can there be??? Is there a way to tell? How many pirate bases does an exodus of 500m create? And is there a 'special' way to end a Pirate Empire? I'm doing fine, but getting BOOORED with destorying pirate bases...