Your answer is correct!

Yeah they said it was a visual bug. Colonisation of new systems has been disabled until they get it fixed

Finally

I highly doubt it. But if that's true, it's very unprofessional to turn off an entire gameplay system like that without even a warning or a post on social media

Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, it's a risk you take when participating in "beta" features. Hopefully, players will get their progress back

Yeah pretty much exactly lol

OK nevermind lol Thanks, FDev (still think it should be permanent :)

Thank you. Also subbed to your channel.

PS: Attached image is one of the first screenshots I've captured in the game