To be honest, its happened to me each time I've tried to colonise (only gone as the Coalition of Planets and Rotharians), so I guess its probably been an issue for everyone who has downloaded the English Alpha 5

happens when I use a different stringtable version. Alright, there's a glitch with it, it has race instead of major at the corresponding identifier. You can fix it on your own using notepad or just use this file here.

Yeah its working now, thanks for that. I guess you'll be adding the new file to the download at some point?

sure. I asked SirP to make a patch. will have a silent update I guess..

Don't bet on it. It's something worth newsitem-ing as far as I care. An update is an update.

alright .

SirP also said he adds a few new features, for example the troop and defense overview which was really missing since you couldn't get a hold of where you've put your troops to and so on.

I noticed this too on the Alpha 5.1 english version.
Not sure whether i want to bother updating/modding it in myself as you suggested with the file as I'm not keen on fiddling about but thought you might like to know it's still missing in the latest version

Edit: also noticed some german text still there for example in the troops section and the names of planets although it is probably not a bug, just something that hasn't been implemented into english yet and didn't bother me much.