Good evening !  currently, Sophons are imposing to me 3 points of pressure in the diplomatic interface because of border friction from my systems with theirs. Please, how can I decrease or cancel their influency pressure ?

I'm playing as a Vaulter HBumblebee. So, basically, I have three options right? declare war, make a peace treaty or increase the influency currency? at the moment, I don't produce much influency per turn because I don't have buildings that increase this currency (I'm starting to unlock them in the tech tree). I've been investing primarily in food (because Vaulters lack a lot of food)  and science (due to the fact that Vaulters are great in science) also, I've been worried that I can't enact more powerful laws because of my lack of influency. I'm in turn 113 now and I only generate 175 influency per turn although I have 3.9k approximately. it's about time to construct some influency buildings, right?

Well they don't hurt, but you can also win most games with very few influence buildings. It depends how fond you are on peace. If war is an option you can nearly ignore influence in my exp.

Indeed Sable, this is an interesting move! Can I win a war against an empire always disguised as corsary without declaring war, that is, destroying or conquering their systems? How can the other empires discover I'm a corsary?