[Baal]

1. The size of the planet and whether or not your population can breath it.

2. There is an Advanced trait you can check before you start the game called "Advanced Storage Techniques". If your population can not breath the atmosphere you can convert the atmosphere so that they can. Breathable planets can hold more population.

3. The size of the planet and whether or not your population can breath it.

4. Converting the planet's atmosphere will increase the amount of facilities it has by 5x. Or you can replace the race on that planet with a race that can breath that atmosphere.

5. It explodes and takes everything in the system with it. If a star has a little note on it when you click on its sector that says its unstable no need to worry, that 'trigger' has not been implimented yet. If you get a message at the beginning of your turn that says a star is going to explode in X amount of turns, then pack your transports with your population and run.

6. It means that it gives a level of cloak to what ever is in it ship or base. To see what is in an opague storm if anything you will need to research some sort of detection sensor (tachyon, hyper-optic, temporal, etc.).

EDIT: You can't convert the atmosphere of a None atmosphere planet. You have to blow it up and rebuild it so that it has an atmosphere to work with.

[This message has been edited by Baal (edited 31 May 2001).]