Colonizing an Uninhabited Planet

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To colonize an uninhabited planet:

1.        Fill the colony ship(s) with colonists and fuel.

2.        Assign the new planet as a waypoint.

3.        Set Colonize as a waypoint task. 

The colonists will dismantle the colony ship when they land, regaining any leftover fuel and cargo, and some of the minerals used in the ship construction, to start the colony.

It's usually a good idea to minimize the number of ships in the colonization fleet. You can always transport additional colonists using a freighter once the colony is established (colonists are unloaded, and the freighter proceeds to its next waypoint). If you have old, out-of-date ships you no longer have use for you can send them along on a colonization mission as a form of recycling (although ships may be scrapped at any time).