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Dude. Click your home planet. Click the "build frigates" button. One of the frigates you can build is a colony ship. If those simple instructions do not help you, then I am positive there's either something wrong with the game that's unusual, or you're missing something crucial.
Heh, In games against the AI, I don't typically do the "give" missions. Screw those guys, they can't have my metal or money. I go aggressively fight the enemy tho, so often times I complete missions and find myself in alliances with certain players just by fighting constantly with a common enemy. As a matter of fact, I rarely even open the diplomacy screen in single player, save once every 10 minutes or so to spot check where I'm at with certain AI players or find out if any
