So my ally Baz seems to have got himself into a problem. Just before christmas he was testing my new fleet movement scripts. Suffice to say they didn't work all that well, and he ended up with fleets that were supposed to capture a inactive planet, instead orbiting a neighbour. He was made aware of the problem, but left on his christmas break before he had the time to move the fleets. When he came back several days later, the nieghbour had declared war and activated his PD to decimate some rather expensive fleets. Baz mobilised, the neighbour sued for peace instantly. Baz decided he wanted some pay back, so the other player has apparently recruited about 7 players to attack Baz. Long story short seems it was lucky I had one of my armadas in the area, though I am hoping that the allies will back off. Baz and his enemy seem to be similar sized so it would be a fair fight.