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General information about colonies:

• Colonies are critical to your ability to generate revenue, especially at higher ranks.
• Once you buy a Colony, this will enable disasters, similar to the Fed HUD in regular TE. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will only lose a few colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events which allow colonists to join you (normally 1%, but occasionally as much as 5%), which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
• Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
• You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, you can choose which of your colonies is replaced by the new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

Minimum requirements for a colony:

• Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
• Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
  • 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
  • 2nd colony: (around) 60 ships total
  • 3rd colony: (around) 80 ships total
• You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
• For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
• Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
  • These upgrade offers will show up every 4-5 days. E.g. My colony offers came on Monday, then Friday, then Tuesday, then Saturday [Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]
  • You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)If your colonies are all of the same size, and you miss the 'which colony would you like to replace?' message, it defaults to colony number 1. This may have been the oldest colony, need more evidence to confirm.
  • When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
  • Warning: If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
• The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Advice on colonies

It's a personal choice on what to buy. But here are some "general rules" that can be helpful.

• Terrestrial colonies provide bonus credits per colonist at census time. This bonus decreases with rank, but the bonuses are cumulative. So, 3 terrestrial colonies will yield 3x the bonus of a single one.
• A man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of disaster handling and research.
• Mining colonies randomly yield bonus credit payments, as well as quantities of enectrium. (Enectrium is required for building the flagship for the director's quest.)

Colony Types

Type	Benefits	Examples
Terrestrial	Higher payout per colonist at census	Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
Mining	Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore	Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
Orbital / Man-made	Discounted disaster handling and research	Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase

Colony Classes

Class	Name	Colonist Capacity	Cost	Total Ships Required	Type
1	Terrestrial Planetoid	2,000	437,500	Min: 50	Terrestrial
	Mining asteroid			Max: 149	Mining
	Orbital Laboratory				Man-made
2	Advanced Orbital Laboratory	2,500	1,417,500	Min: 90	Man-made
	Medium Planetoid			Max: 224	Terrestrial
	Large Mining asteroid				Mining
3	Iron-Rich Asteroid	3,200	3,937,500	Min: 150	Mining
	Orbital Vehicle			Max: 299?	Man-made
	Small Icy Moon				Terrestrial
4	Carbonaceous Asteroid	4,000	8,859,375	Min: 225	Mining
	Icy Moon			Max: 499	Terrestrial
	Orbital Spacedock				Man-made
5	Orbital Base	6,000	18,000,000	Min: 300? (btwn 294 & 312)	Man-made
	Volcanic Moon			Max: 724?	Terrestrial
	Silicate Asteroid				Mining
6	Large Volcanic Moon	9,000	50,000,000	Min: 500	Terrestrial
	Magnesium Asteroid			Max: ?	Mining
	Advanced Orbital Base				Man-made
7	Rocky Moon	17,000	122,500,000	Min: 725? (btwn 565 & 734)	Terrestrial
	Binary Iron Asteroid			Max: ?	Mining
	Colony Spaceship				Man-made
8	Advanced Colony Spaceship	30,000	242,000,000	Min: 1100? (btwn 1004 & 1219)	Man-made
	Plutonic Moon			Max: 2199	Terrestrial
	Iron Asteroid Field				Mining
9	Iron-Nickel Moon	50,000	393,750,000	Min: 1500? (btwn 1426 & 1509)	Mining
	Colony Starship			Max: 3999?	Man-made
	Volcanic Dwarf Planet				Terrestrial
10	Small Volcanic Planet	125,000	484,000,000	Min: 2,200	Terrestrial
	Advanced Colony Starship			Max: ?	Man-made
	Selenic Planet				Mining
11	Starbase	240,000	800,000,000	Min: 4000? (btwn 3988 & 4051)	Man-made
	Xenolith Planet			Max: ?	Mining
	Waterworld Planet				Terrestrial
12	Advanced Starbase	430,000	1,474,560,000	Min: 6400? (btwn 6381& 6407)	Man-made
	Telluric Planet			Max: 24,999	Terrestrial
	Yttric Planet				Mining
13	Artificial Moon	800,000	4,000,000,000	Min: 10,000	Man-made
	Diamond-core Gas Giant			Max: ?	Mining
	Blue-green Planet				Terrestrial
14	Synthetic world	1,000,000	62,500,000,000	Min: 25,000	Man-made
	Interstellar Asteroid Belt			Max: ?	Mining
	Terraformed Binary Planet				Terrestrial
15	Terraformed Star System	2,000,000	300,000,000,000	Min: 50,000	Terrestrial
	Ore Rich Star System			Max: ?	Mining
	Dyson Sphere				Man-made

• Note: The min/max ships in the table above are estimates if they are recorded in italics and followed by a "?".