Sadly I don't think I can give you an exact place (at least, no offical one at any rate - Tom Francis's new blog about Gal Civ II mentions that he was able to find out what the issue would be before it happened, and I'm fairly certain that a dev post somewhere mentioned it, though I can't give an exact one :S) Thanks anyways :)
DiscountNinja
I've read in several places that it is possible to find out what the united planets will vote on before the turn the vote takes place. Could someone please explain this to me? Is it not in the final game? If it is, where will this information be displayed? How do I go about getting it anyways? I always have the full 25% into espionage and I have advanced espionage on all of the major races (and since the 1.99b update, the minor races too). Do I have the be the Kyrnn or somethi
Edit: Ignore me please. However, if you're ever looking to update the Impulse UI, then perhaps a way to indicate where the preferance menu is. The Stardock symbol is not the most intuitive place to look for it - I've had Impulse for a few months now, and only have some hard searching did I find it :P Perhaps I am simply thick :)
I suspect that the starbase is newly made? The turn after it has been created, it still shows the speed value that the constructor had. The next turn it should go away. Unless of course you saw the starbase actually move, then yes, a bug.