Sorry to bother but was trying to find the name of an old Space game. It was shareware or similar because you could play offline for free or pay to use the multiplayer. Was a 2D game. Think it was designed as a multiplayer game but had AI.
Setting: Anyway it was set in our solar system and there were multiple teams, each with planets and moons in the solar system.
Gameplay: You controlled one ship in your teams fleet (rest controlled by AI), and you could fight enemy ships and had to help your team. You could hover over one of your own planets and pick up colonists ( which got put in this ship/box that you dragged behind you) and you could drop the colonists on other planets to try take them over.
Also you had ranking, at the start you could get crappy little ships and you had to do stuff to get better rank.
Anyway any help will be appreciated, hope its got you thinking.