Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Awaras

I wonder if someone can explain this to me.
I installed the latest beta patch, and I am not sure if it caused this, but I never observed this before:


While looking around the map I noticed a destroyer going to a system 3 sectors away from my empire.
I checked it out and saw that it is going there to escort a mining ship. OK, i thought, it probably
went all the way there to mine something extremely valuable, I might send a constructor to build a
mining base there... I take a look at what it is mining and it is LEAD?! Two of my colonies have
lead on them and i got 4 mining bases that mine lead among other stuff and all of them have a
healthy supply of it so there is absolutely no shortage. And besides, half a sector from my
homeworld there were a couple of unoccupied planets with better lead sources than the one the
miner went to.
What kind of AI sends a ship 3 sectors away (it will have to return on reserve power since it does
not have enough fuel for the trip back) to mine something my empire doesn't need?