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[astrofan]

I attacked Polis Massa with a few skiprays and shuttles and since the only units the rebels had were a group of y wings, I easily overpowered them. However, I then realized that I probably didn't have enough firepower to take down even a level one space station, so I swarmed the space colony in the hopes of slowly destroying it. Sure enough, it worked, and I retreated since I figured out from previous experiences that when you lose the space colony, you usually lose all space stations there when the battle is over.

When I came back with the same group, no battle was initiated and I conquered Polis Massa since the space stations were gone with the space colony, or so I thought. Turns out, when a rebel group of fighters and bombers comes to the planet expecting light resistance, the rebel level one space stations were still there, except they were blue and were fighting for me. I am not sure if this is a bug or something intended like taking over a vacant space station.

It's kind of helpful, but I am not sure if it will become annoying later due to the fact that two of my possible space station builds might be taken up by rebel level one space stations that I never intended to build. On the planetary view (when in galactic view, you zoom in on a planet), the two black boxes on the left that shows the first two space stations that you have built, nothing appears even though there are two rebel level one space stations there.

[evilbobthebob]

That's one of those weird ownership bugs, I think. I've never had it happen to me, but I have attacked and retreated from places and shipyards have remained after the destruction of the space colony. I think that's intended behaviour, though not necessarily something we can control.

[astrofan]

Ok, thanks, I'll see what happens after I build a few structures and have a few battles.

[astrofan]

I have some information to update with, this time, coming from Zonju V. The rebels had two (I believe) level one space stations and a space colony, again. I applied the same strategy except that since Zonju V, unlike Polis Massa, has ground combat, I sent my fleet to orbit the planet with no station resistance while I landed troops (at-st's and at-at's). I auto resolved the battle to find that it had said that I won with no casualties and the rebels lost two buildings (crawler factory and another building I can't remember).

However, back in galactic view, the planet was not under my control, so I attacked again and auto-resolved again, this time to find that the rebels had lost two more buildings (a crawler factory and an elite barracks) as well as two level one space stations before I conquered the planet. So, the space stations were there and were destroyed in the land assault even though they didn't fight in a battle when I moved my fleet back to the planet after destroying the space colony. Hope this helps in any way!

[Phoenix Rising]

Might be possible to script their destruction for space-only worlds.