When you need to call down the thunder to deal with those pesky biters, launch a rocket with an ion cannon into orbit and show the bugs who's boss.
NEW +3 technologies: Area Fire and Ion Cannon Mk2
Was building my 5th ion canon on 1 platform.
Total I placed 8.
Placed the 5th one while ship was in transit towards Vulcanus
Loaded autosave and built everything before flying towards Vulcanus and nothing went wrong.
So not sure but i guess its cause i build an Ion cannon while traveling that caused it
I added a link in my main post of this thread, if that's not what you're looking for I won't be able to provide what you need.
I managed to recreate the bug more than once by constructing a radar for the orbital ion canon (Cannon and radar in platform hub) while space platform is in midflight between any two planets.