[Vorque]

Okay, I just started a new game and colonized two green-asterisk planets in my home system. But for some reason, whenever I send a colony ship to a red-asterisk planet in my home system OR an any-asterisk planet (green or red) not in my home system, the colony created has zero population and cannot do anything. What gives?

I am not using any mods except the "eye candy" mod which isn't supposed to change any data anyway.