Greetings.

I've got a few n00b questions and I have looked around and cant find the answers. Can anyone answer the quesitons or better yet, point me to the resource that holds the answers? {I have watched the tutorials, read the PDF, looked around the metaverse and still cant find the answers.}

1) Regarding the culture-influence starbase's affect on your borders:
First of all, I think I'm a little confused about the difference between empire borders and cultural influence. The main borders I see in the playing field is my empire border? How do I view the cultural influence border?
When I build an influence starbase, does it expand my cultural influence by pushing my borders away from the starbase? Or does it just add to the sum 'culture points' that dictate the borders? (If it just adds to the 'culture points' then it would not matter the actual poisition of the starbase as long as it is somewhere inside your empire. However if it is locaiton specific, then you would want to put them on the frontier.) I have about a dozen more starbase questions, but if you can point me to the right place, then I wont have to ask them.

2) How do I remove a rallypoint that is in the same position as a starbase? Normally, you could click on the rallypoint and kill it from there. However, when it is in the same position as a starbase, I can only click on the starbase.

3) Is there a method to spend credits on counter-spying?

4) Is there an encyclopedia of the technologies & improvements? Dont say the wikipedia as it is still a work in progress and missing most of my answers.

thanks in advance