Ah...well, GCs in Phoenix Rising take a long time to load. In v1.1 you might have to wait a couple of minutes at least (we've improved it in the current development version). Unfortunately the game doesn't have a loading screen for GCs so you just have to wait. If it's more than ten minutes then you can probably safely say it's not working.
Yeah. Sorry about the long load times for 1.1, we've learned a lot since then.
I've got load times down to 25 seconds for Core Worlds V1.2 and a tough 60-70 seconds for GFFA (the worst culprit) in V1.2, compared to 10 minutes plus on the old V1.1 files.