I'm Still not understanding what order the list of colonies is in. Particularly within the "other Colonies" category.
I'm guessing that it's random to some degree. My reasoning is this.
I went to the bottom of the list and there were about 10 colonies that I'd established for Ground based surveys that I completed some time ago. No mines, no installations no teams, no nothing left so I wanted to abandon them.
The Bottom 3 were Margaret, Brunhild and Alkmene with Alkmene at the bottom.
Abandoned Alkmene. Scrolled all the way down again.
The Bottom 3 were Margaret, Vanth, Kiviuq.
Brunhild was still on the list but quite a number of others were now lower down.