Colonizing planets

Finding a planet

While traveling throughout the galaxy, use sector scans to see if your current sector has planets. There can be between one and nine planets in a sector (including wormholes), however with default settings this is usually limited to five (MAXPLSE).

Inside a sector with planets, use planet scans to check on the planet's attributes. Generally you want a planet with the best attributes ("good" or "very good"), as these planets can hold more items and produce items more quickly than planets with worse conditions.

Other things to consider when picking a planet:

• Some unclaimed planets are already inhabited with small quantities of men and food, making it easier to get started.
• Planets closer to the center of a sector are more difficult for attacking ships to escape from, if the planet is equipped with sector-firing ion cannons.

Claiming a planet

To

Abandon a planet

The ABANDON command will renounce your claim to a planet. You must be orbiting a planet that you own to issue the command. The planet will revert to having no owner, and can then be claimed by anyone. The planet will be removed from your list of planets, and you will lose any points you have been allotted for the population of the planet.

The command has no options. Simply enter:

ABANDON

or

ABA

(TO DO: what effects does this have on a planet's administration)