I Colonized a Planet... with an empty colony ship

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...and i dont know how it worked...

I was screwing around spamming colony ships via Ctrl-C cheat and found this out. I had always assumed that they wouldnt "work" on a planet unless i loaded them up with civilians. For some reason i forgot to fill one ship up with them and tried to colonize a planet... It worked, and i had a planet with 0-population under my posession... I never tried to go any further than that, going for a couple of turns to see what would happen, but i was obviously shoocked that such a thing were possible to begin with...

So... anyone else do this before?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can't *launch* a colony ship with zero civilians, so this is a non-issue. Unless you're a cheater.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I ended up with a 1-citizen colony ship once, when I accidentally upgraded one of my sensor cargo ships to a colony ship (instead of the new-model sensor ship). I parked in on a planet I owned and filled it first before trying to colonize with it, though.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
You can also load the entire population of a planet onto a big enough ship, leaving the planet with 0 population. No cheats required for that one.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I can see that.

"Hey kids! Come on ur up to the coloner ship! We done did fill up this here planet with our spit n rust buckets. Yo momma said she can't find the wash under all this mess."

The idea of a "ghost planet" also seems cool. Like if you could find a random planet where all life was wiped away leaving pristine buildings and a huge mystery (a la Serenity).
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yep Bolo, would be cool to have some kind of "reaver" event that makes a planet go nuts and spam attack ships all over the place. (would need to grow ships from somewhere though, since the reavers wouldn't produce their own).

Leaving a planet without population could give the chance of a minor "spawning" there, although that'd have a certain cheese factor to it. Just imagine being able to create minors. That's like having a goose laying *diamond* eggs.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What about some kind of ambush event to have vessels captured around a "reaver" like planet.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Or how about biological weapons like the critters from the Aliens series?

Or ancient ruins where you can set up an archeaology dig and discover new techs?

Or a planet where it was wiped out from a plague and all structures/ ships/ stations are still there with noone aboard?

food for thought