Coaan

I'm using the 1.03 beta patch, just for reference.

So having played about 20 hours of GalCiv so far and gotten into a few Gigantic maps full of Gifted AI and it's been an experience. I am by no means good at strategy, though I do enjoy playing them. With that, I have a question. How does the AI determine power with which it bases all it's major decisions on whether to attack off of? I have had a hostile alien empire with very little other than a massive amount of mining starbases decide I was for the chopping block and