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I'm invading an independent colony that has a couple of imprisoned generals (presumably from a prior failed AI invasion?). The battle report screen shows them contributing to my side of the battle.

Probably a bug but I guess its possible that is intended.

Edit:
Wait, I think I know what happed, this is great.

I had attempted to invade that planet earlier but had neglected to ungarrison troops before loading them. I got distracted with something else, figured they were loaded and sent them to the colony. I eventually realized there were no troops and sent them back home to get the actual army - Duh. But the generals must have been assigned to the troop transports by the automation AI. So when I invaded the first time, the two brave generals parachuted in - by themselves!

The locals must have been quite confused seeing a couple of aliens running down the street screaming and carrying on. After the cops where called and determined these guys were clearly drinking and unwell (talking about how the army was coming and that they would all be crushed), the 2 hapless generals got tossed into the looney bin. (They both have the drunk trait so that actually plays).

But being the loyal generals that they are, they knew their boys would return and planned their escape. After 2 years in forced psychological therapy and really bad hospital food, the real invasion finally arrived. They broke out and joined the invasion force to glorious victory!

Freaking awesome bug. Don't fix it.

Please, invent a story for my pirate leader who is now the advisor of one of my frigate

The kicker is that they are both drunks. The two of them wake up after another hard night of drinking with orders from the Personnel Transfer Synchronization Department (PTSD) to report to the troop transport ships.

Meanwhile, the marines on the planet received orders from the Deployment, Engagement and Recruitment Department (DERP) that all squads not in garrison duty should report to the ships. But since they never received orders from anyone to go active, they maliciously complied and remained scrubbing toilets.

The troop ship auto-pilots activate and off they go, the generals drinking the whole way with plenty of supplies for the two of them, and not really noticing that the ships are awfully empty. They arrive, stumble into their assault pods and atmo-insert onto the planet - way too drunk to notice the sky is empty of any other pods.

Too funny.

Great story. Funny how they broke out of jail to fight

Greatly appreciated post!
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