In the next major update we will be removing Minor Civilizations from Master of Orion. This is based on your feedback, as well as our own play experiences with it since the feature was added. While this is an Early Access game, ensuring the core gameplay works well is critical to players being able to properly assess and give feedback on features. We believe that Minor Civilizations in its current implementation is working against that core gameplay. It’s important to stress that this feature is not being removed permanently at this time. Instead the priority of the feature has been lowered while we work to address other more important issues. We will spend additional time working out the bugs associated with it and also providing a little more polish before adding it back to the game. We’ll have more details on that at a later date. Thank you again for playing and please keep the feedback coming.