Something very weird just happenned.
I'm playing Terran. All major civilizations are active in the game, most of the minors too.
Suddenly, the map turns out all bright orange, as if everyone is now in Krynn's syndicate zone of influence.
As far as I can tell, no one has surrendered all at once. I can still see the other races planets, so they haven't surrendered that. I can see them all in the diplomacy screen. If I try to trade techs with the Krynn, they don't show me any techs that I don't have (their list is empty), so I don't think it could be some sort of weird tech upgrade that I missed in the previous games 
I did notice that their influence started going up very fast, they took over all of the Iridium planets with their influence. I think what may be happening is some bonus from their starbases growing exponentially? One hour ago, the game was normal. Now suddenly, in a few turns, they have 3/4 of the galaxy.
I submitted two saved games for review, but I'm wondering if someone has seen something like that so far?
Ticket #GEO-344-68837
EDIT: And a few turns later, all the map is orange Ugly color. I want my beautiful blue back!