It's annoying having to keep planets that I don't want. It would be very nice if we were given a "raze" option similar to the one in Civ 5 so that we can take enemy planets to weaken the enemy and then just sack the planet if we don't actually want it, destroying all buildings and population and removing empire control of the planet.
It is possible to delete all the buildings, and you can also load all the population into transports/colony ships and move them someplace else.
That requires too much micro.
You can already do what you are asking for. Just open the Govern screen of the colony you want to get rid off and click on the button "Destroy Planet".
Interesting. Does this come with a diplomatic penalty if the planet was originally owned by somebody else?
Nope. It's your planet now, so you can do with it whatever you want.
It does make the planet entirely uninhabitable. So there is no recolonizing if you do this since it results in a dead planet.
It seems odd to me that there is no diplomatic penalty from destroying all life on a planet you just captured from an enemy. I think it would make more sense if the game remembered which planets were originally settled by whom and thus gave a penalty to relations with the original owners.
I believe that the devs are considering future mechanics to address the conquering of a planet, in regards to mixing of races, buildings, prolonged unhappiness due to underground resistance, etc.
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