Whats special about troops and colonists?
Another feature currently unique to terminus is colonisation. By trading the special products Troops and Colonists you can take over asteroids/planets/bases/docks/ports for your empire. So how does it work? well you will see on all the object types you can take over there are 5 extra products – Troops, Colony TGI, Colony WFG, Colony PKU and Colony CMC. The basic idea goes like this – whichever colony has the largest amount of colonists in it takes the item for their empire, so in order to take over a world you must sell your colonists to it, increasing their numbers until you have the most. Of course no empire is going to let you just take over their worlds so most worlds will be defended by troops, which you must kill before you can exchange colonists. Invading a planet to remove enemy troops is also accomplished through the economy window, you select a number of troops you are carrying and sell them to a world to make them invade it. You will then see the battle progress in the messa
