Kick ALL the Starters!

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Also, asteroid bases can be used as space-to-ground kinetic projectiles.  I am not making this up.

Of course you aren't. The "colony drop" tactic has been around for decades - just look at Gundam...

Let me clarify.  The incredulity was aimed at the idea that you could do a colony drop in-game, not at the concept of one.
I have only ever seen two RTSes that let you play on multiple planets at once (Light of Altair and the (horrible) expansion to Empire Earth), and they both treated it basically like playing an island map.  This is the first game I've seen that actually treats it like space.

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