Goresh

I played SOSE from the earliest days but I can't get into SOSE2. Is there a manual or tutorial available because I can't figure out how to do pretty much anything that was intuitive to me in SOSE? Just decided to give it another try but gave up again when it took me 15 minutes to figure out that I had to do planetary research before I could build an orbital research station and how I could go about actually doing planetary research.

And then it just "happens"? What about systems where you don't have a colony, or don't they exist?

You figured it out? So tell me because I haven't.