For People who keep asking the same and the same, and cant get it cause is just text here this guide.

In order to get a colony ship you need: Now you have your first Colony ship, what to do next????
first go to Galaxy tab and explore where you want to go example: 1:1:1
This will just help you know who's around the coordinates you want and then decide if you want to go or not. Sending the Colony ship to his first and last mission.
What do I mean by first and last? Once you send the ship to the coordinates you wish, you will gain the planet and loose the ship, that is if nobody got there first, that's why is helpful explore in the galaxy tag first.

First go to the fleet tab. next select your colony ship [type 1 in the square] then click continue.

Choosing target: Now tell it what planet you are wanting to colonize (example 1:1:1) then click continue.

We are close to end. in this screen you just need to: Active the colonize button and then click in continue, leave the resource empty, and at last click continue. [if you want put some resource and send it up to you]

Now in just a few min or hours depending on speed and distance you will have a brand new colony to subjugate errr. I mean help grow and prosper

How can I change the name of my colony?
quite easy click in the Overview tag then click in the default [colony]:my planet xxx
then a new screen load, type the new name click in change name continue and done

nice post, should be made a sticky in the help section..

when i sent extra stock with my colony ship it was not delivered, i send that after the base is up..

i got the same problem with extra stock... btw nice tutorial

Gritty tutorial. But to the point and will be a help to many.

May I revise the text and clean up the image sizes?

MOVED TO THE HELP FORUM AND THANKS.

Bumped for da new folks.

cant you sticky this? its sticky worthy for sure

nice. It just needs the right image for the last action (colonize, not expedition)

As a beginner to this whole setup, this walk through helped tremendously after the just joined page... thanks alot

If two players simultaneously send colony ships to the same planet, surely the first ship to get there sets up the colony. What happens to the ship of the second player? Does it automatically return to its origin?

Yes.