Is there any update or progress on this? I have an enemy probe orbiting my home system star for about 5 hours now. I have set him to war status and clicked on the probe and selected the attack button, and confirmed it. I have moved fighters singly and as a fleet into orbit on the same star (although the appear in different "spaces" on the map) and they sit there for 20 minutes with nothing happening. I moved destroyers into the same orbit and left them there for an hour, nothing happened.

Does combat even work at all in this game currently?

Where is it explained what the significance is for the different spaces around a planet and a star? Are all the spaces "in orbit"? Why do ships and fleets sometimes take different positions around a star/planet for no apparent reason?