Yep, must have been recurring gifts. Dunno what I was confused about.. I guess it was just really late, opened too many saved games.. cans of beer..
On another topic, Can I suggest that the sitrep for colonizing new systems be changed to orange rather than green? The green encompasses just about everything that is being done in systems, and when I have a lot of systems, I prefer to deactivate the green filter, leaving the orange red and blue active. The colonization of a new system is way more important than a finished farm IMO..
Another thing.. it's a little difficult to do is find all the systems that have an eligible trade route, especially when you acquire a large number of systems, and they get broken. Is there some way of finding them that I haven't noticed? I mean I know that the system has to have min 250pop to have one, so I search for that number on the economic view. A list of all the systems that have trade routes (active or not, and their destinations) in the intel screen would be really helpful.