Okay sorry no time to find a post to reply to as I have to leave for work in two minutes.
1. My games are saving if I click the save button versus just pressing enter don't know if this is a fix already in place from day 1.
2. Precursur ship is just a defender, but may be that way for Alpha.
3. Ship will go outside of range to continue normal movement, this should be limited to the range unless it's a soft range that we can't command ships to go beyond, noted in other posts.
4. Stars disappear when loading saved game, just represented by the original white dot on the game screen until you re-explore that area then, it will look as normal.
That's all for now...
Thanks.