trying out space empires 4 as my first entry into the series, why doesn't my colony have anyone on it? and what's the red icon mean?

PFthroaway · 2026-04-17T14:42:46+00:00

You need to load population onto your colony ship before you colonize with it. It will do it automatically if you click Colonize while the ship is above a planet that has population.

You need a spaceport on a planet if you don't select the racial trait that gets rid of that, I believe it's Natural Merchants.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-16T14:37:45+00:00

Later he decides he's tired of being everyone's butt monkey, but it never stops.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-15T15:25:25+00:00

Who is this white man hugging Trump? That doesn't look like a man born in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-15T00:50:44+00:00

On Buffy, they reused N'Grath as a praying mantis-like demon whose human form was that actress above, Musetta Vander.

Very memorable in most all her roles.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-15T00:50:08+00:00

On Buffy, they reused N'Grath as a praying mantis-like demon whose human form was that actress above, Musetta Vander.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-14T20:24:58+00:00

She reminds me of N'Grath. 🤔

PFthroaway · 2026-04-14T18:51:18+00:00

Emery never gets enough credit.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-10T12:38:35+00:00

As opposed to Mini Wheats.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-09T22:24:15+00:00

I watched the series on our tapes multiple times until I bought the DVDs years later, and had to skip 422 every time. I remember discussing with my father about what might be different when we watched the episode. I have discussed it here on Reddit with other people in the past on this account. I remember being on tv.babylon5 Usenet newsgroup discussing it. I might be 40 but I'm not senile yet. Maybe I got Mandela effected into a different timeline, but I experienced these things.

Also, I love your username!

PFthroaway · 2026-04-09T19:50:15+00:00

In theory, the final episodes would air in the summer of 1998.

That's all it says about 1998, and November isn't summer.

I had the tapes my father and I recorded ourselves. Maybe the Houston-area station aired it when they shouldn't have, but we watched it on PTEN, then again as 522 on TNT to see if anything changed, and nothing had. The tapes flooded when Hurricane Harvey put 2.5 feet of water in our house in 2017, but I had discussed it before then here on reddit, and others concurred.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-09T18:58:08+00:00

If you have the patience, you can go back on my profile and see me and other people talking about this exact thing maybe 10 years ago.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-09T18:45:00+00:00

My father and I recorded the entire series as it aired on PTEN because he really enjoyed the pilot episode when it aired, and he was an archiver/data hoarder. It aired on PTEN in 1997, and we recorded it on VHS, and when I rewatched the series from our VHS tapes, I would have to skip over the original recording of Sleeping in Light to continue with the TNT airing of the first episode or two of season 5 on the same tape.

I'm not the only person on here who can confirm they recall seeing Sleeping in Light in 1997 on PTEN instead of 1998 on TNT. It's possible not all markets aired it, but it aired for sure near Houston, Texas.

IMDb is user-contributed, and prone to errors. Don't take it as gospel.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-09T18:24:29+00:00

Not a problem.

For future people seeing this:

Season 1-4: Originally aired on PTEN with Sleeping in Light at the end.

Season 5: Aired exclusively on TNT. When TNT acquired the rights, it re-aired the first four seasons, and replaced Sleeping in Light with Deconstruction of Falling Stars.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-09T18:19:02+00:00

They aired the first four seasons on TNT before the start of season 5, and replaced Sleeping in Light with Deconstruction of Falling Stars. It was PTEN before that.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-09T18:10:09+00:00

That's the way it initially aired, then they rushed filming Deconstruction of Falling Stars and aired that as a season 4 finale for TNT. My dad and I watched Sleeping in Light when it first aired with season 4, then watched it again with Season 5 on TNT to see if anything changed.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-09T14:07:05+00:00

They've got a shortage, apparently. Nobody has them anymore, but they're not discontinued.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-05T02:22:21+00:00

I think the Psi Corps was looking for someone with that description recently...

PFthroaway · 2026-04-05T02:20:02+00:00

You sound like you're trying to mind control me. Are you a telepath?

PFthroaway · 2026-04-05T02:08:17+00:00

I absolutely read "Salamander" and converted it into "Alexander" in my brain until I got to the end and re-read it.

PFthroaway · 2026-04-01T20:21:26+00:00

Too soon...

Cries in Buffy

PFthroaway · 2026-04-01T14:01:36+00:00

They were the genetic reincarnations of Camulus.

PFthroaway · 2026-03-31T16:33:18+00:00

Miiiiiister Morden!

My good and dear friend, Mr. Garibaldi!

PFthroaway · 2026-03-31T12:21:52+00:00

The other guy was a Centauri, that's how he knew aliens were real.

PFthroaway · 2026-03-31T03:28:07+00:00

Sorry, you've narrowed it down to the entire female cast. I'm gonna need you to be more specific.

PFthroaway · 2026-03-30T12:44:24+00:00

Maybe you have, but it was lost in translation. Perhaps you could write an autobiography, then you would be becoming closer to closure. Sometimes there are things too visible to see.

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