Populating asteroids?

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not really. asteroids do come with a size and pop/facility limit, so you could make them colonizeable by doing something like this:

change asteroids to type rock or ice or gas, and they will be colonizeable but will not be convertable into planets. they will be destroyable by techtonic bombs, then convertable into planets, which is very strange.

an interesting idea for a mod might be this: get rid of planet creators. change gas giant class planets to be asteroid type instead, that way they are remote-mineable but not colonizeable (someone wanted this anyway). change asteroids to gas-giant type, and they are now colonizeable. rename gas giant colonization tech to be asteroid colonization tech, and there you go. takes some editing of tech areas, components, and planet types, but should be easy enough.