Just captured a 50m colony on Aruru, and to may dismay...

[Tsagoth]

It magically turned itself into an outpost 5 minutes later. I lost a lot of ships defeating the colonial defense, why did it revert to an outpost? Bug?

(Bug report already submitted)

When you say it turned into an outpost, do you mean the 50M population disappeared ? Or something else ?

[catswift]

When I attacked it was a 50u colony (confirmed by Strongbad, and the left over pieces of my 60-odd ship fleet). For about 5 minutes after I owned it, it still showed 50u and the text "need 100u for factory" or whatnot. Then I checked in on it again later, the population is 0u and the text said it was an outpost.