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Author: zarpaulus

Jun 24th 2014 at 6:25:38 PM

A standard ship in any space-based FourX game, usually expended when a planet is colonized.

* In ''VideoGame/GalacticCivilizations'' each colony module on a ship carries up to 500 million population, when one first lands on an unclaimed planet the ship is disassembled to build the Initial Colony improvement.  Later other colony ships (or military transports) can transfer population and remain intact.
* ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire'' is unique in that colony ships aren't expended when they colonize a planet.  Though it's suggested they mostly carry administrators and marines to annex the planet's existing inhabitants.
* In the first ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' game colonizers are used up whenever they're deployed on a planet with some infrastructure unbuilt, they increase population, infrastructure, and terraforming instantly.  In the second game a fleet assigned to a colonize mission will ferry colonists from their base to the new world until it's self-sustaining, then become available for re-use.