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On my red planet, I have declared independence and built my capitol. I want to upgrade it to level 2 along with my consulate to level 4 but I have no option to do so despite buying the technologies that would let me upgrade my capitol to level 6. Why Can't I upgrade them?

My next question is about the "needed by" building listed in the technologies. For some technologies it says that you will unlock things and that some things are "needed by". What does this mean?

Whenever I try to load one of my colonies, it gets stuck on restoring data. It does this for even colonies I haven't even built things on. Is there any fix for this?