How do I colonize a planet?

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The tutorial says to have your ship selected and then right click a planet. When I right click a planet, it sets that planet to the waypoint, however the ship doesn't do anything.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The ship has to carry a colonization-module and some citizen.
Take a look on your ships when starting the game, one is the survey-ship and the other one is a colonize-ship.

Oh, and the Planet needs to have a number above 0, the 0-planets aren't colonizable.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I know it isn't the survey ship, however I will confirm about the colonize number. I tried a lot of different planets without success.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Depending on the settings you entered at the start of the game you may find yourself in a galaxy with almost no inhabitable planets, or that there is a large number of overall planets and you have just been unlucky finding a habitable location.

Also, I realise it may be a silly question, but have you let the colony actually travel to the planet you set? IE, set the waypoint/autopilot destination and then end your turn a few times to make the ship actually move. It will not colonise until it can end its movement turn on the planet square itself.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Click on the star, and it will tell you how many habitable planets in the system. If none find a new system.