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Here's another issue I'm dealing with - is there a trick to successfully turning the allegiance of a planet from the Empire to the Alliance (or vice versa)? I have a few planets where I moved a ship in and destroyed all of the military units. There are no imperial forces, personnel or fleet there(including mine, I hear that pisses off the people there). Plus there are no imperial forces/personnel on other planets in that system. There is a tiny bit of red in the red/green bar. I keep sending guerilla forces and after several hundred years they have done no good. Any tricks/suggestions? I've included some of my personnel in the guerrilla teams, but this doesn't seem to do much good either. If I do include characters, what is more important, leadership abilities, or espionage? Is it better to have one large team or several small? I originally thought more was better, but then I read where smaller teams are more easily undetected. I've also been setting several as decoys, but is this important? Any hints are appreciated! Thanks!

I'm a little frustrated that I can't move in to the planets I want to in the originally unexplored systems. I have built the recon ships, which have been sent on missions to all planets in a system. Only a few return with the red/green bar at the bottom, signalling they are ready for diplomacy missions. There are many which only have the two lines of blue and red squares. I keep sending bothan spies on espionage missions there, and I send the recon ships back there as well, but nothing seems to work to force these planets to become eligible for diplomacy and colonization. There are many planets that remain uncolonizable after 1000 days. Is this typical? What sucks is that these planets seem to be the more resource rich ones in the system; the ones they let me colonize typically have crappy levels of resources. Will these *eventually* allow me to colonize them? What drives this, and is there anything I can do to hurry this along? Thanks for any suggestions!