Home Sweet Home

I already completed the main game quests siding with the Minutemen and I'm now playing Nuka World DLC.

I'm going to try Power Play and Home Sweet Home but I want to cause as less damage as possible to the Commonwealth (yes, I'm a good guy, after all) so I was planning to turn into raider camps only settlements with no population. I already ulocked all the workshops but some settlements are still empty.

Before I try this plan, I checked the wiki for advice but I was not able to find any.

Is there anyone who already tried to take control of the Commonwealth with this approach?

If I send companions or robots I build to an occupied settlement, can we take over that as the raiders?

I'm trying to plan the rest of my Nuka World playthrough, and it's really important that I get everything right becauae I'm trying to finsih Nukaworld without actually kilking any innocent people, and this is Survival mode so options for reloading if I do something wrong are limited.

I've been reading the Wiki article for this quest and getting stumped on this part:

3. Select a method for taking over a settlement (Capture, Clear Out, Shake Down, Subdue)

Subdue doesn't seem to have a description, so I'd like to ask if anyone has information on that option.

Shake Down doesn't seem to assign it to a gang, but most other Nuka World articles say you must capture 3 settlements and divide them amongst gangs.

Clear Out and Capture sound very similar. It seems like Capture has a peaceful option, unlike Clear Out. Clear Out apparently can be used at creature-held settlements. Can either be used at empty settlements? Specifically, ones that used to have creatures but that I've cleared without inviting settlers?

This will be my first time capturing settlemets for raiders, so I'd like to know if there any changes to the normal settlement building systems. Can you still build at them? Can you assign raiders to all the normal jobs and trading outposts? Can you have both Settlers and raiders at the same settlement?