Stellaris - 2.7.2 (60bf) Pop growth keeps resetting on robotic-colonised planet

[ai0867]

Description
2.7.2 (60bf) Pop growth keeps resetting on robotic-colonised planet

Game Version
2.7.2

What version do you use?
Steam

What expansions do you have installed?
(DID NOT ANSWER QUESTION)

Do you have mods enabled?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
For the second time this game, I've had the following issue: A planet is colonized by robots somehow (first time was a droid colony ship, the second time was the awakened neural patterns of an ancient species), giving me a small number (first 2 droids, now 3 awakeneds) on a planet.

As my empire has biological origins, robots don't grow naturally, meaning I have to build robot assembly plants for them to reproduce, but I can't build them until I have 5 pops.

Enter migration. As a fanatic egalitarian empire, I have free migration, and no resettlement. Migration causes the planets to gain more than 2 pop growth progress per month! Here's the bug though, the pop growth progress resets every month or so, causing it to alternate between "no pops growing here" and "1 month of progress".

I'm playing vanilla ironman with no DLCs, so mods aren't causing this.

The first time, I was able to solve this (the planet being stuck at a low number of pops) by resettling droids produced elsewhere, but since then I've given my synths citizenship rights, so I can no longer resettle them.
I was hoping the "Greater than Ourselves" edict would help here, but I'm not sure what the "is_under_colonization" check means.

Steps to reproduce the issue.
1. Start as a biological empire.
2. Research droids
3. Colonize a planet with a droid colony ship
4. Wait forever for your pops to move there by themselves.

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[Alfray Stryke]

Hi, thanks for the report. Is there a particular planet in your save that's currently experiencing this issue? I've experimented with colonising planets with non-organic pops and the migration from my homeworld allowed them to grow normally.

 

[ai0867]

The current planet suffering from the issue is a colony world with just 3 pops awakened pops on it. I believe the name starts with the letter G. I can tell you more when I start the game again, which should be in the next few days (possibly tonight).

Note that the pop growth seems to start, but then changes to no pops growing the next month tick.

 

[ai0867]

Name of the planet is Gaee IV. I was going to attach a save of a few years later, with still 1 month progress, but the progress finally stopped resetting, and I now have actual bio-pops on the planet.