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Upload and deep six rioting pop. replace with happy slave pop from another world. Will take awhile for pop increase but should buy you time to build troops.
As a pirate, the pop increase will never happen. (-9% repro, -50% environment resist)
There are fewer than 5 worlds in my known universe that can support even 1% growth
Plus, I can't build colony ships, so I naturally don't have control of many