[dogscoff]

Another good population increase tactic: Check out any moons around the planet. If they have better conditions that the planet, colonise it (even if it's not native breathing) and use it as a population farm - transferring pop between a planet and its moons is immediate and hassle free.

Of course this has the added advantage of extra cargo space, weapons platform site(s) and unit production - and space for another facility.

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"Uh, I think so Brain, but how are we gonna teach a goat to dance with flippers on? "