Some MORE random SE:V questions

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- When an empire surrenders to me, its ships keep their orders; even the silly ones like retrofitting to a design that I don't have. Is there any way to have a surrendered empire clear all its orders automatically?

- Has anyone got the Transport Minister to work yet? Details, please, for getting him to work.

- Is there a formation creator/editor out there? or is there a formation mod that adds lots of them?

- Is there another beta history.txt file around for anything beyond 1.45?

- Is the 1.45 fleet transfer screen any better? I understand that you are now supposed to be able to see/select TF leaders, but what about the other clunkiness?

- (edit) oh yeah, one more: does anyone know how to get the "Join Fleet" order to work? It seems to work for the AI. Stock hotkey is CTRL-V.