Editing Colony (section)

==Unrest==
''Main article: [[Unrest]].''

Unrest is caused when the inhabitants of a population are in dispute with the central imperial authority. This can cause anything from mild production problems to rebellion and has several different causes. The most immediate effect of unrest is on the productivity of a population. All factory output, research, shipbuilding, wealth creation, trade creation, etc. is reduced by a percentage equal to the number of unrest points. For example, if a population has 25 unrest points, then all production is reduced by 25%. This is in addition to other modifiers such as manufacturing efficiency or political status modifiers.

Once unrest starts to build up, there are two options to deal with it. If you remove the cause of the unrest, the unrest level will slowly fall by itself based on the determination (or rather, lack of determination) of the population. The alternative is to station ground troops on the colony. Beware, if left unattended, there is a possibility the population might declare independence and break away from the Empire.