The so-called "tutorial" doesn't even explain how to give orders! How do I tell a ship to orbit and survey the moon, let alone deliver colonists?
Oh yes, there is so many things i couldn't find anywhere on the tutorials or wiki,anyway, what you want is the task groups page under Empires (or F12) Look for the drop down bar on the top left side labeled name, click it and you get a list of all your task groups, click the one your survey ship is in, on the right you see a list of all the ships in that group and down the bottom is where uyou give orders, bottom
right left has a list of bodies in the system, default is just planets and jump points but there is also options to show asteroids, moons, other task groups etc, to survey the moon click on luna, then under "Actions available" there is a list of things that ship can do, click Geological survey, then click add move,it should show up under the plotted move list, you also have an option to cycle moves, which is useful for doing repeat orders, like dumping colonists etc.
Edit: something to be aware of is that if a ship reaches a planet and cannot complete it's order (like if you tell it to load 5 mines but there's only 4 available) it'll cancel that action, and delete everything from it's move list... which is rather annoying, also when you first construct a ship you choose what task group it'll be in, the default is Shipyard taskgroup i think, anyway if you have a ship still being constructed set to a taskgroup and you tell one ship in that task group to move it'll just sit around waiting for the other one to finish being constructed, so it's usually a good idea to detatch each ship from the shipyard task group when it's finished building, to attach ships to the same group you need to select the group you want everything in, click on the option to show task groups under "system locations available" select the task group you want to attach, then click attach under "actions available"
And back to the Topic at hand, if the NPR's like to spam you to death with size 1 Anti missiles, would a viable defence against them be to spamm a higher quantity of tiny almost useless missile decoy/drones for them to target and waste ammo on?