Unknown aliens, no special project

[Seadd-Talan]

There are some hostile aliens in a system I sent a science ship into, but I have no special project to investigate. They are definitely ships of some kind, and I don’t want to send a fleet because I have never seen these guys before and I want to know what they are.
When I go to the fleet screen the ships are called, “Audon Caretaker Unit”
Any one have any information on this?

 

[Galandu Peilius]

Literally first result in google if you search for audon caretaker instead of spamming bug reports

 

[Seadd-Talan]

Literally first result in google if you search for audon caretaker instead of spamming bug reports

Okay, let’s be clear. That first thing that came up on google mentions nothing about Audon Caretakers. It talks about ancient caretakers, maybe they are the same thing, but how should I know. All I see is a tiny fleet of three ships with 200 fleet power. That reddit post was talking about something that apparently can make a difference during the war in heaven.
The next thing on google was a steam forum post, but it was taking about a fleet that shows up if you decide to do whatever you want on some Gaia world, never had that happen.
Can’t find any information on it. Besides, the game clearly states that I need to complete a special project in order to find out more about these aliens, but there is no special project. So how about you answer the question instead of assuming I didn’t check before posting this.
Also, this is not the first time this has happened, and the last time I am pretty sure it was a different group of aliens since the fleet had 10k power and was orbiting a star in another empire’s territory, but was not hostile, where as the Audon Caretaker units are hostile. So clearly there is a bug with some aliens where special projects are not showing up when they are supposed to.

 

[Gurunicknak]

I think they are from the Gaia world event mate that the steam forum mentions maby a A.I empire triggered the event ?

 

[Seadd-Talan]

I think they are from the Gaia world event mate that the steam forum mentions maby a A.I empire triggered the event ?

I suppose that’s possible. I haven’t played this game a whole lot, so I sometimes forget the AI can get events that I don’t. Thank you for answering the question.
However, it still leaves the question about the unknown aliens from my previous play through. They were non hostile and had about 10k fleet power, were in another empire’s territory but weren’t hostile to them or me, and there was no special project.

 

[Gurunicknak]

I suppose that’s possible. I haven’t played this game a whole lot, so I sometimes forget the AI can get events that I don’t. Thank you for answering the question.
However, it still leaves the question about the unknown aliens from my previous play through. They were non hostile and had about 10k fleet power, were in another empire’s territory but weren’t hostile to them or me, and there was no special project.

It may have been the privateers before they were redone in megacorp and became the caravaneers

 

[Andy197905]

The caretakers are in that system to protect the gaia world and will make contact with you if you settle planet. What happens depends on what you say tc