[Shadowstar]

I've gone back to a saved game I made the turn that I drop the troops and am going to try doing different things with them.

I have a hunch that the bug is related to the fact that there is absolutely no resisting force on the planet. The troops can land without causing a ground combat because there's nothing to fight them. There isn't even a weapon platform on the planet. I suspect that SE5 isn't giving me control because no combat is occuring, in other words it's only coded to give control if a combat occurs and I win it. It wasn't programmed for this occurance.

That said, there SHOULD be resistance. Even if the computer player won't build any troops to protect the people, there should be militias.

Something is odd here.