Fleet Capacity Variations

Maybe someone here can clue me in on what is happening here. Throughout several games I have noticed that my fleet capacity will fluctuated without me building or losing any ships. My current game I have all research options researched so I am at my max capacity of 2000. However, it will fluctuate between -7 to -40 and so on. This happens without me gaining or losing ships.

At first I thought I was gaining ships because on some of my planets I would have ships just randomly appear. Then I found out that for whatever reason they would automagically teleport from planet to another without me telling them too.

Even on other games I would go -?? before more capacity was researched. So I would research another tier and I would gain a positive amount of capacity. But, without building or losing any ships it would continually go down. I've made sure there were no ships being queued anywhere so they weren't being produced.

I'm at a loss here if anyone has any clue what is going on please let me know! Thanks TDO
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Reply #1 Top
Are you playing as Vasari with Returning Armada researched?
Reply #2 Top
I am and on some games have had that researched. Although it doesn't always happen with it researched.
Reply #3 Top
What happens is the ability causes your phase gates to spawn some ships whenever you have fleet points available. That's why if you have say 2 free fleet points, it can spawn a 12 fleet point ship and you'll end up at -10. They also appear on the planets with the phase gates, which is why they're spread all around ;)
Reply #4 Top
Thanks for the answer. I'll have to pay closer attention on my next game. I'm sure you are right though :P

-TDO