SUGGESTION
a. We suggest creating one fleet as with a suicide kamikaze pilot, and one ship, namely a "Sensory Array". Once you created that fleet, send it to the GALAXY CORE, just launch the beast (left target selector) This will immediately expand your known stars, and your horizons will start expanding.
b. you should then create one fleet specialized in "ACTIVATING LSP" planetary systems, which must consist of:
treasury transport colony transport engineering crew construction equipment
c. you should then create another fleet specialized in "ACTIVATING MINING OUTPOSTS" (i.e. to put them into production), which must consist of:
Survey Team Scout Engineering Crew Transport Construction Machinery Transport Ore Transport (or Heavy Ore Transport)
OK, if you created a fleet, and forgot or didn't add ships to it.
click on ships (top menu) then click on fleet management
You will then see the shipless-fleet colored RED (meaning something wrong)
click on that red fleet name, and you will be taken to the enlistment screen (space port with fleet selected)
Then, assuming that you have bought some ships and launched them, and they have arrived in space port, yo will then be able to add ships to the fleet (and don't forget to scroll a little down, there's the "enlist" button)
When your fleet is docked at one of your LSP's which is in production, or at one of your anchorages
it can be disbanded.
A button is provided for that.
The ships pass to your spaceport on that planet, and can then be upgraded to the latest propulsion class, so you can create a faster fleet.