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Answer: you need a colonization ship with the colonize ability to colonize a planet (and I would recommend taking out the planetary milita while your at it.) The colony vessals are: TEC Protev Colony Frigate and Akkan Battlecruiser, Advent Missionary Vessal and the Progenitor Mothership, and Vasari Jarun Migrator and the Jarrasul Evacuator.Each colony frigate has the ability to take over neutral extracters found in neutral GW's.
As Bulger mentions, you need a colony frigate or colony capital ship to capture a new planet. From there, you can build extractors on asteroids.
For ice and volcanic planets, you need to research the appropriate technology before they become available (this requires two civic-type technology labs).
Some gravity wells do not contain a colonizable world, but may still have extractors to capture. In this case, you can acquire them by sending colony frigates to capture each extractor individually. For Vasari, you can do this with your scout.
For the colony capital ships, you need to assign its first ability point into Colonize, otherwise the capital ship will not be able to colonize planets.
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