I just started The Nords and I wanted to transfer my vet gen from the landing zone (black) to the area on the right (orange).
This is what happend:
I pressed the transfer button in the general window.
I did get a cursor-marker for the new camp, but not a route towards it.
I clicked in the orange area (note: not all land within the orange area was light green)
No pre-construction site appeared in the area (orange) I had clicked.
My vet gen started to break up the old camp (black).
A minute later I could not find him walking to a new place.
2 minutes later he appeared active in the star menu
He had transferred to the top left island on Nords. (Red)
I had no way of getting my gen of that little island except sending him home.