Will specialized colony techs apply to invaders in DA

Hello, Sorry first Post
Before my question just wanted to thank and congratulate stardock on creating a great game with the best support I have encountered. Anticipating the release of Dark Avatar but was wondering about the following. I think the idea of special worlds where you require special techs to colonize is a great idea. But I was wondering if any one knows if different races will start with different homeworlds (i.e. Dregin homeworld high gravity making them stronger physically than other races hence better soldiers)and how this will effect invading other races colonies and home worlds. Will an invader need the specific tech before invasion ( Not much point invading a planet if you can not occupie it and use its resorces).Will there be an option to just destoy a planet with out invasion ( As a stategic tactic. If you are wanting to defeat the Dregen but can not invade or use their worlds you might just want to destroy them) Perhaps this only applies to colony worlds and not homeworlds and all races start off with the same basic enviormental needs ( Hence the Terrans could use any races homeworlds without any specific techs and vice versa) I think the idea of different races living in completely different envoirments would be much more realistic and add another strtegic dimension to the game. ON the other hand I know nothing about A.I and programming so this might be to difficult to implement and the A.I might not be able to cope. Once again Thank you Star Dock for a great game
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well, the simple answer is that the other race who have to tech to survive will have presumably built to accommodate the conditions and that will mean you will come into an already habitable world. But another element could be added by having a structure on the planet to make it habitable *but would be built like the initial colony so that no space for structures is lost* and then there's a considerable chance *seeing as this alters the planet it should be vulnerable* that it would go boom in the invasion. But if yyou do invade an uninhabitable planet, you should be allowed to have an option so that for a fee *based on PQ* you can have droid sentries which act as weak defense so that you won't have just lost 1000 soldiers whilst invading the planet to just see it invaded.
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IMO I think the long of the short of it is if you have the tech to colonize, you have the capability to invade. If you don't have the tech to colonize, then you can't invade. Like I said, just my opinion. Now just sit back and wait for the more informed crowd in here.