[Ragnarok]

It is possible to deplete the population on your home world. I've found if you build a colony ship on like a LC hull, and put more then 1 cargo container. Then you slowly start losing population on your home planet. If, however, you only use 1 cargo pod then you shouldn't lose population. I was putting out colony ships every turn at one of my home worlds once and each one had 1 cargo pod on it and the population never really suffered that much. So it depends on if you have a bunch of cargo pods or are useing transports alot.