Weird morale adjustment associated with Venge event
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I've only been playing for a couple of weeks, and this is about my fifth game (medium sized galaxy this time). Haven't posted before and have learned a lot about the various errors and variable interactions by following the forum now and then. 
Anyway.
1) Early-midgame the Venge 'event' took place. Apparently they terrorized by largest planet, umm, Earth. So morale is stuck at 1 now, 2 turns later.
2) I'd noticed about twenty turns previously that most of my planets were all somehow suddenly 'set' to 50 morale (which hadn't happened in previous games), regardless of anything else. Was very sudden when it happened. I didn't think anything of it, because hey, that was fine with me. Not sure what the trigger event might have been, there certainly wasn't a pop-up event at all.
3) I was playing as a Technologist, with the only other senate power challenging me being the Mercantiles.
4) It will take at least 50-100 turns if not longer to mount an offensive to end the Venge threat to Earth, what with me being into trade and research.
5) Not going to happen. The game appears to be over for me - despite my high influence. Game was too early on.
Am I whining or is something funky going on? Seems a bit early to be getting so screwed. Is the point that a player needs to research various weapon/defense trees before bothering with the tech/merc tree? Seems incongruous. And what's with the previous weirdness of 3 planets suddenly all hitting 50 morale while earth was at 100, and for multiple turns afterwards?
Anyway.1) Early-midgame the Venge 'event' took place. Apparently they terrorized by largest planet, umm, Earth. So morale is stuck at 1 now, 2 turns later.
2) I'd noticed about twenty turns previously that most of my planets were all somehow suddenly 'set' to 50 morale (which hadn't happened in previous games), regardless of anything else. Was very sudden when it happened. I didn't think anything of it, because hey, that was fine with me. Not sure what the trigger event might have been, there certainly wasn't a pop-up event at all.
3) I was playing as a Technologist, with the only other senate power challenging me being the Mercantiles.
4) It will take at least 50-100 turns if not longer to mount an offensive to end the Venge threat to Earth, what with me being into trade and research.
5) Not going to happen. The game appears to be over for me - despite my high influence. Game was too early on.
Am I whining or is something funky going on? Seems a bit early to be getting so screwed. Is the point that a player needs to research various weapon/defense trees before bothering with the tech/merc tree? Seems incongruous. And what's with the previous weirdness of 3 planets suddenly all hitting 50 morale while earth was at 100, and for multiple turns afterwards?