[Lerchey]

Fenris,

You are, inadvertently, sending empty colony ships.

There are three ways to "fix" this:

1) When your colony ship is still in orbit, don't use the "move" or "warp" buttons to send it colonizing. Use the "colonize" button, click on the target sector, then click on the target planet. It will autoload colonists and head off to colonize.

2) Click on the "load cargo" button before telling it to move, and load population from the planet. That will load up colonists, then you can fly around to whereever and colonize at your leisure.

3) Build a transport with lots of cargo containers, load population at the homeworlds, and then drop population on your empty colonies.

Hope this helps,

John