Colleges are just for parties . <| sep |> It ' s a pickle because both Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays are politically incorrect for different people . So I just say neither . <| sep |> Clearly too big of a compromise to switch from pistols to rifles for sport in exchange for drastically less gun crime I guess . Your poor freedoms . Never mind the fact that your small sacrifice would greatly benefit the health and safety of the country at large . So this is what selfishness and entitlement looks like . <| sep |> Plenty of countries use the dollar as their primary currency . No reason California couldn ' t do the same thing . <| sep |> Manpower generate for you each turn for each system . Once the system is fully fortified , it will bleed into manpower pool which you can check in military tab . It increase quite slowly , so if you need instant manpower , hit enroll button . This will force enlist your population empire wide into manpower pool . Ship and system manpower also drain from the pool if needed . Ship will recover manpower if orbit around your system . Basically , manpower generate from system then it went into pool once it full . Ship will pull manpower from pool if there is any , even you don ' t want that ship to hold the troop which rustle my jimmy . If system being siege and lose manpower , it will generate it own along with pulling from pool . If you are not in hurry , just besiege the system and wait until it goes down to 0 or extremely low then invade . You won ' t lose many trooper that way .