Retrieving a survey team from a civilian ship

[happy2pester (OP)]

Hello, I am brand new to this game, having discovered it yesterday.  Today, I have been following and attempting to expand upon the basic walkthrough tutorial in this section.

What I have done, is I have assigned my Xenologist team to a survey team.  The intention was to foister them off on a commercial shipping line to get them to mars, but now I can't get them off the civilian ship, which is currently in orbit over earth.  Can anyone offer any advice?

[Paul M]

Option 1: use a tractor beam to grab the ship with the team onboard.  After that you can move the ship to mars and unload the team with the drop off team command.
Option 2: transfer the team members to a job on earth (your task force HQ works best here).  Then recreate the team and load them on a ship you control to move them to mars.

[happy2pester (OP)]

Part of the issue, is that now they are on a civilian frieghter, I can't locate the team at all in any of the menus - I can look up the individual officers in the officer page, and see their assignment to the team/where they are, but I can't find any interface to transfer them off the civilian ship

[MarcAFK]

Try the "unassign type" button on the leaders page, you may need to turn on spacemaster, then once they're unassigned you should be able to relocate them using the location change thing on the same page.

[happy2pester (OP)]

That seemed to work, thanks!