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Originally posted by rdouglass:
Find a moon or an uncolonized planet in the system, colonize it and emergency build an Urban Pac. I create a colony type I call "Reform" and build Urban Pac's and any race-specific stuff (Med Labs, Fate Shrines, Temporal Vacation, etc.) that increase happiness. I do this routinely when I force an AI to surrender.
I design a troop unit with a cockpit and no armor or weapons. i call these 'riot police.' 3-6 ships in orbit is usually enought to take a population from 'rioting' to 'really peeved' and then I can repeat build the troops (about 10-15 per turn depending on planet production. you could get even more on a happy world, but by then, who needs em?) until they are all at 'over-joyed'
depending on how long the planet was being blocaded for, they wont riot on the first turn anyway, so you can get the police troops cranked out before the riots start.