My ungrateful subjects

[douglas]

I arm my police troops for two reasons:
1) Force enemy players who want to capture my planets to actually take losses in their troop forces.
2) Have a ready-made ground invasion force ready without much advance planning. Need to launch an unexpected offensive and you'd rather capture than glass? Just round up some police troops and put them on the job, they can be replaced while the fleet is already moving rather than forcing the fleet to wait for them to be built in the first place.

[dmm]

More thanks. I did know about "police" units, from this forum. One nice thing about unarmed "police" troops is that, if they fail to keep your colony from rebelling, they won't present any impediment to you recapturing it with real troops. In the particular case of the game I'm playing now, I don't have to worry about the planets being attacked by anyone.

[Parasite]

A small Space based yard in orbit around each planet can feed it troops even if there is are riots down below. Space based resources are not effected by the riots, they can still produce. Watch out if the riots get too big and you start to lack in your build queues.

They will count against your ship limits, so be careful.