if unattended, your ships will just go bananas and head to wherever they fancy going...(but head home once in a while?)
i think you can force trading with routes...
Cheers. I think I'll leave them for now and see how they go, wouldn't want to mess it up and end up losing steel/Quatloos. If they look like they're heading somewhere dangerous I'll just point them towards my home planet instead, but since the only person trading trading in this sector is me they shouldn't wander too far
The huge guy's name is Zootcat. Go to 1590.4,1905.9 to stare into the heart of darkness.
I see he borders MaleMaldives... good luck, buddy 
He's the guy fighting with uranus for top of the
scoreboards. I feel sorry for yuggy, a new player just north-west of him
EDIT: Gratz to De-Legro for being 15th on the "Most Fleets" board
