Paranid Plot - Is this expected?

[Blaze1st]

I'm in the middle of building the station for BUC during the Paranid plot and I noticed a bunch of PAR ships around PAR sectors are red to me. Not all but a couple of destroyers and fighters which are harrassing my traders carrying wares to the build site.

I'm just curious whether this is expected or not? I definitely had to kill some SCA that were not hostile during an earlier step but I don't think that should have caused any kind of unexpected chain reaction (there was no PAR around) but it would make sense for some PAR to be made hostile during that phase even if they are not mission objectives to kill.

So yeah, I'm just curious if it's normal that a handful of standard PAR get flagged as enemies (not referring to the religious zealot fleets that spawn) during this phase of the plot. I'll destroy them if I have to but I'd rather not (they're going to need them soon!) but also wondering if I just ignore them will they eventually revert to friendly? (PAR rep is 29 atm).

[Blaze1st]

I ended up paying them a visit with the Erlking and it didn't escalate any further.

Will presume a few PAR get flagged hostile when you start the BUC station construction or shortly before.

[Blaze1st]

Figured out it was my supply ship on the gate picking up wares from a blown up PAR storage nearby.

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