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/died from exertion on his poor heart...

How about movable (auto intelligent/private sector) sollar system machines?

I know the 'anti-planet spam league' will hate this one, but I'd love to see you able to do SOMETHING with all of those PQ0 worlds...

Not necessarily a whole 'colony management' thing, but at least build an outpost (similar to a starbase) that produces minerals, etc.  Minerals are subsumed into economy, but something similar to the Asteroid mining mechanic would work nicely for these.

The bigger the world, the more valueable it might be.  Some 'hidden gems' might be fun too, i.e. you establish a mining colony on vacuum world Vargas III, and find out that it has a large deposit of radioactives (+100 to income produced).

Also, Since you ARE mining those asteroids, those would make great locations for starbases, perhaps at a discount.  Why haul all of those metal plates into the middle of nowhere when you have that big hunk of asteroid you can just hollow out...

Awesome!  Glad to see I'm not alone in wanting this. 

I like the idea of using outposts as a land-grab, so that you can claim systems or even parts of systems even when they don't have colonize-able planets.

Also, in a separate post about starbases... one way to avoid "constructor spam" for outpost management would be to have an intermediary currency.  So for example, colonies could be set to produce "outpost points" that could be spent on upgrading outposts after they're initially built.  Then you could use a governor-style approach to manage all your research outposts, all your military outposts, etc. 

All of this would allow you to really spam your empire across the stars without requiring heavy micro-management.  And it could tie in well with diplomacy... if you did a big land grab with outposts early on, you could horse-trade them with the AI (or other players) for whatever they might have that you want.