We should also be able to mount an direct, undisguised attack on an outpost or ship prancing through our own territory or through neutral space without declaring war.Perhaps this could be a mechanic linked to espionage and envoys. Overall, when a player or AI just spams explorers and builders far from their home, it feels weird that I cannot arrange "unfortunate accidents" for those, ideally trying to disguise the killings as pirate activity or exploration gone awry.Cold war as described above as a default status after first contact seems like a better default than the current friendly open borders vs hostile closed borders dichotomy.Here are a few ideas to adapt those concepts to Stellaris: Provocative and hostile actions will lead to demands to stop, retalation, and eventually to proper war. Most AIs will leave your science ships alone during cold war as long as you leave theirs alone. You can have a low-scale war over unclaimed territory, and see what you can away with without triggering "real" war. I think this gives a much better feel to the land grab phase. You can blockade a colony-in-progress to stop resources from reaching it and thus prevent the system from becoming part of enemy territory.Conquering a system is not just a matter of plopping down a quickly built outpost, you must either colonize the system or wait for your Civ-style influence border that grows around colonized systems to reach it.Transitioning out of it is gated, IIRC by technology and the equivalent of Influence Points)
(Of course, Cold War limits the diplomatic options available.
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