Zero pop planet money pit. Can't migrate/colonize

[lrdkzi]

Playing humans, and my units invaded an independent desert moon autonomously. I decided to exterminate the native population before any of my pops settled on the planet leading to a zero pop planet aside from troops. 20 hours later and my pops still won't migrate to the planet, despite researching desert colonization, and there is no option using the colony ships that I can see. So I just have this miserable -2.2k, 0 pop, 0 development, -2 happiness planet spamming revolt messages but there's no population to revolt.

How do I fix this short of starting over?

[Emperor0Akim]

Sounds like we need an option to abandon a colony.

if it would not mess with the empires influence I would suggest gifting the thing to your enemies.

[Arthanis]

Can confirm I've seen the same in my game after exterminating the pop of an indepent planet I had invaded.

[Psycho78]

Can this glitch be fixed with the editor?

But yeah razing/abandoning colonies definitely needs to be a thing. Let us wage a scorched planet campaign if we wish.

[WiZz]

This is the bug of the colony with 0 pop + your troops. Known since DW1.

[firemad]

I opened a bug report: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 6&t=381871 show some loves here

If the problem is from DW1 ... wow I mean I have no words