Weird colony issue in SEIV Deluxe

[Jeku]

Because SEV has a few bugs I'm hitting, I decided to purchase SEIV Deluxe and play that for the time being. I have played the demo at work quite a bit, but now I'm hitting a weird issue.

Immediately at start I moved a colonizer out to another sector and colonized a rock (domed) planet. Then I setup a queue of a Resupply Base, a Space Port, and then a Space Yard. Anyways, the time left on these queue items are always on Never, because my population is at 0! After reading the planet description, it said there's no vegetation, which I thought might be the case, so I colonized its neighbour. Same thing.

Is this normal? I looked at the colonizer ship details and it has a Rock Colony item in there, which should have people in it right?

I'm a little confused. Yes I did the tutorial about a week ago when I was first learning about Space Empires.

Thanks for your help!