wobbly wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 4:18 pm
Gray Area wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 4:11 pm
I went back to before I conquered the planet, and sent in a Scout Ship to make it visible. Once again, even though there are enemy ships in orbit around the planet, the population is still already dead. There are still 12.0 Ground Troops there, but no regular population.
Looks like an ordinary outpost:
Outpost.png
wobbly,
To date, I've only played as a human. I generally use Outpost Ships to take possession of planets, etc. And, after simply taking possession of a planet, from my limited experience, I've not seen any main population, or any Troops appear on that planet.
After using an Outpost Ship, in order to place a population on a planet, I've had to choose between colonizing the planet with either humans, or Exobots. I've then selected either Colony of Human, or Colony of Exobot from the planet's Producible Items Screen to colonize it.
It generally it takes around five (5) turns for colonization to become complete. And, during that time, I have not observed any main population, or Troops appear on the planet until the colonization cycle has completed itself.
I've just run a test by colonizing a Small Terran Planet with humans. At the end of the colonization cycle, the human population was 1.00, with a target population of 12:00. At the same time, Troops also appeared with a population of 6.00, and a maximum target of 12.4.
Also, if I send Troop Ships to an unoccupied planet, nothing happens other than my ships simply sit there orbiting the planet. No Invade Button appears, so I can not land Troops on the unoccupied planet.
The point I'm trying to make is that I'm pretty sure there are only two (2) possibilities for Troops to be on Eros Alpha II, as follows:
1. The Chato completely wiped out the planet's original species, invaded with their own Troops, and took possession of the planet. But, they did not colonize the planet to repopulate it.
2. The Chatos originally colonized the planet with their own species. But, as the planet's environment is unsuitable for their species, the main population died off first, leaving their Troops behind as of the time of these investigations.
Again, in the original game I played, and unfortunately deleted, Eros Alpha II had a main population of around 3.6, as well as 12.0 Troops. And, before I could even get my own Troop Ships to the planet, both the original main population, and the original Troops died. After that, all I had to do was take possession of the planet with an Outpost Ship, and then colonize it with Exobots.
Gray Area
