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<A> Take All Products

This will load your empty holds with the products available on the planet.  The dock workers will load your ship to the brim with as much of each of the products that is available beginning with the cargo of greatest value (Equipment) to the least value (Fuel Ore).

<C> Enter Citadel 

You enter the Citadel (and display the Citadel Menu).  If there is no citadel on this planet, you will have the option to build one.  The necessary products and labor force needed in the construction will display.  You will not be issued a building permit if you don't have the necessary people and commodities.

This will show the planet number, type,name and the alias of the player who created it.  There is also an informative chart showing how many colonists are working in each production area, how many units of each product are being produced daily, the quantity of each product currently available on the planet, and how many of each you have on your ship.  Citadel information including level, construction underway and credits in the vault is also available.

You will want to move your fighters around to protect your territory.  This option will allow you to take fighters currently on the planet or to leave fighters you have escorting you.  The fighters on the planet are controlled by the Combat Control Computer (level 2) in the Citadel.  If there is no Combat Control Computer there, the fighters would better serve you patrolling the sector outside the planet.  Leaving fighters on a planet will designate the planet as yours.

Let the entire universe know who controls the planet.  Use this option to set the planet as either Personal or Corporate.  This is a must when you've gone to all the trouble to capture one of your opponent's planets.

Throughout the course of the game you may wish to change the distribution of your workforce among the commodities.  This selection provides you with an easy, efficient way to order your workers to the job you need done.

Colonizing your planets can contribute greatly to your trading profits.  This will enable you to leave the colonists you've brought from Terra or pack everyone up and move them to another planet.  Keep a close watch on your planet's population because many planets experience a growth/death cycle.  If your planet has too many people to support, the raw materials needed to produce your commodities will be used up by the surplus population and your production rates will be adversely affected.

This will let you specify to the dock workers which type of products you want to leave and which ones you want loaded on your ship.

First you purchase Atomic Detonators from the Hardware Emporium.  That is the easy part.  You then have to fight your way into the sector containing the planet.  After battling the fighters, Quasar Cannons, and any other military defenses that may be there, you have the ability to lay your Atomic Detonators.  Colonists have been trained in the disarming of detonators.  Most of the training was rushed and provided by inexperienced teachers, so they aren't very good at it.  Most of their attempts literally go up in smoke, and if you are still on the planet when their attempt goes awry, you go awry with it.  You have the option of suing your conventional weapons to kill off the colonists before you lay the detonators so you don't run the risk of getting killed by their lack of skill.  If you're willing to risk the bad Karma to be a little safer, this might be the correct option for you.

Display the portion of the documentation describing the Planetary functions.

Take off from the planet.

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