Newbie question - Planets going to 1 morale?

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Two times now in my current game a planet has suddently gone to a morale of 1. In both cases, I think it was a planet I'd taken from another civilization. There are good quality planets who had had at least a decent morale the turn before.

What's going on here? Is some other civilization trying to destabilize me?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Check your pop. Planets that are 'overcrowded' suffer from a morale decrease. The main cause of 0 or 1% morale I've found in my games is there are simply too many people on that world. This is easy to fix by building a colony or transport or combat transport, loading up some of the pop, and sending them on their merry way.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Oh, and remember, your core worlds probably have some nice morale enhancers on it, and your captured/new world doesn't. This means your core worlds will handle a higher tax rate then your new worlds.

As I said in my previous reply, I pop off people to reduce the crowding. If necessary, I will also drop my tax rate if the world is in danger of defecting or rebelling though, until I can also get in some morale enhancing buildings. However, I find that I have to do this rarely. Usually just shoving people off the planet will take care of the morale issue.
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