Posted by: kingflute
« on: January 15, 2021, 10:35:22 AM »Quote from: brondi00 link=topic=12303. msg146581#msg146581 date=1610647240
If you are going to SM mode you can do what I sometimes do. Use SM do design a really cheap infantry with no frills and light personal weapons and a cheap infantry hq of whatever size you want. (I don't put anything else in it at all). Then instant research them and go to the colony, into the GU build screen and instant build one or two of them.I found that this is also a good way of representing a local millita, raised and trained locally for the defence of their home planet only.
I personally RP this as a local police force that, while not effective at war (no supplies and no support and poor armor penetration) it does provide a quick way to police the pop without having to import police/garrison from the homeworld (which always seemed kind of weird since they aren't a foreign pop why should I need real soldiers to police them wouldn't they provide their own police force).
Now I don't do this if I'm RP'ing a more totalitarian police state. But a more peaceful republic or democracy is be inclined to do the above.