Spending Breakdown

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Where exactly can I see the spending breakdown of a planet? What does it mean, and what drives up spending?

On a new game, I see planet Dratha has a 'spending' of 7BC. Acceptably low, I assume it's research money.

I start building a factory and it goes up to 12BC - 5 manufacturing points?

I colonize Dratha IV - and right away there's 14BC spent on Spending on top of 12BC on maintenance. Nothing is being built - so why the hell am I paying so much on spending? It has nothing built on it, there is no industry, and only the two default research points.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The obvious (but non-intuitive) answer is that maintenance spending is included in the spending total. I have always assumed it was, but can I get someone to confirm this?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Any colony beyond your initial will cost 12bc for the colony building. Thats why your colony on Dratha IV costs so much out of the gate.

This will be the case the entire game unless you pick Good upon completing Xeno Ethics as they get their top X number of planets' colony tiles for free.
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