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Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - SeaWyrm - 01-01-2018
(REFERENCES:)
BUILDING INFORMATION
DRONE INFORMATION
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Probe 7 Wrote:*BLEEP BLEEP*
INCOMING TRANSMISSION from PROBE 07
ASTEROID BM-720861i-809:
![[Image: initial_map_cropped.png]](https://www.deepwatercreations.com/SixtyFourPixelColonists/A/0/initial_map_cropped.png)
CONGRATULATIONS! Your bid (#1703) in the Galactic Frontiers Project has been accepted! Attached above is your first glimpse of the slated landing zone. We hope you and your lucky group of colonists are excited to complete the months-long one-way journey to ASTEROID BM-720861i-809 to begin your new lives.
But first, we need a little bit of information. As part of our program, we offer one of three starting packages to equip your new colony. Do you hope to build a better society? Make exciting new discoveries? Strike it rich and find your fortune? GFP will outfit you with the things you need for success!
Please select the equipment that will be sent down with you to the landing zone:
![[Image: starting_choices.png]](https://www.deepwatercreations.com/SixtyFourPixelColonists/A/0/starting_choices.png)
(Additional supply drops may be offered upon request, but are not guaranteed.)
For the more technical-minded among you, here is some extra information about the equipment offered:
BUILDING INFORMATION
DRONE INFORMATION
Whichever package you choose, please also register the professions of the additional specialist(s) you elect to bring with you. Once you've confirmed these details, preparation for your exciting voyage can begin!
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 01-01-2018
we're here to start a better world. as such we brought a librarian
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - kilozombie - 01-01-2018
Package 2, with the aforementioned librarian as a specialist, as well as a chemist.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - FlanDab - 01-01-2018
Package 2 (Light Indigo Box). I'm suggesting a chemist and an artist (for interior design and decoration (if you people object, I'm go for librarian)).
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - Arcanuse - 01-01-2018
Interested in packages 2/3.
Need a bit more information first before choosing.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - FlanDab - 01-01-2018
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 01-01-2018
can we replace the biologist and geologist with cattle
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - a52 - 01-01-2018
package 3, only instead of one of the shelters, we bring a pro basketball player.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - tronn - 01-01-2018
Package 3, we'll be movers and shakers of industry. Capitalism yay!
p.s. bring a mechanic
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - FlanDab - 01-01-2018
I am concerned with the questionable decisions and ethics people here suggest.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - Mayu_Zane - 01-01-2018
Select middle option, add another medic and another engineer just in case something breaks.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - SeaWyrm - 01-02-2018
Your new colony is best equipped for scientific discovery. All of its 10 members are highly trained and have scientific backgrounds, but four of them in particular are experts in the fields of biology, geology, medicine, and engineering. One of them is also a notable artist, and another, a master archivist.
After a long but uneventful journey, the ship arrives and jettisons its crew and cargo to the surface of what has, until now, been called "ASTEROID BM-720861i-809". (That's a bit of a mouthful, though. You can rename it if you'd like!) The prefab shelters are quickly set up by the skilled colonists, and the other equipment unpacked.
![[Image: map_1_cropped.gif]](https://www.deepwatercreations.com/SixtyFourPixelColonists/A/1/map_1_cropped.gif)
STRIKE THE EARTH!
...oh, but what now? Well, you have two drones: 1 Construction Drone, and 1 Compact Scouting Drone. The construction drone can use plasticarbon to build structures. The scouting drone is best used to look around the surface of the asteroid and push back the FOG-OF-WAR, and it can also do an up-close analysis of anything that seems interesting, or even take samples.
If you issue orders to the drones, your colonists will control them from the landing module, which is currently the location of your only signal antenna.
Your 10 colonists consume 1 unit of food apiece every turn. You have 20 units of food in storage, and your algae tank can produce 4 units of food every turn.
THE NUMBERS:
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 01-02-2018
let's build a better world even though we're all engineers. whoops we're libertarians
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - FlanDab - 01-02-2018
>Let's get our artist and engineer design a mine that's both efficient and attractive.
>Scout for minerals!
>Consider hydroponics.
>Rename asteroid name to BRiS (short for Big Rock in Space).
EDIT: Wait, should we build a laboratory or common room first?
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - Justice Watch - 01-02-2018
I think we should be working on sustainability first, while we can still afford to. We should prioritize finding better food sources.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - FlanDab - 01-02-2018
Nooo! Plain red on its own is very ugly. Its both straining to the eye when bright, and ugly as sin when dark. It's going to be a nightmare to look at. It'll bleach to pink after multiple cleanings which everyone does not appreciate. I like my whites and greys!
Food seems like a good idea. Research hydroponics! Also get soil samples. (I just realized we may not have any plants or seeds.)
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - SeaWyrm - 01-03-2018
TURN 2
Construction Drone: IDLE
Compact Scouting Drone: ANALYZING REGOLITH (Complete!)
REGOLITH ANALYSIS:
Regolith in this area is composed of andalusite, dolomite, and trace clay minerals.
The biologist and geologist get in a minor argument over whether some of the readouts indicate the presence of organic compounds. No firm conclusion is reached.
The ansible crackles to life!
Galactic Frontiers Project: Colonist Outfitters Department Wrote:DROP POD EN ROUTE WITH SUPPLEMENTARY SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT. KEEP AN EYE OUT.They must have launched that while you were en route to the asteroid, or it could never get here so quickly.
ETA: 1 TURN
![[Image: map_2_cropped.gif]](https://www.deepwatercreations.com/SixtyFourPixelColonists/A/2/map_2_cropped.gif)
A quick poll of the colonists decides that the asteroid's new name will be "Big Rock in the Sky" or "BRitS" for short.
The colony's artist and engineer put their heads together to draft up some plans for a hypothetical mine, but the engineer quickly realizes that it will be hard to formulate a concrete plan without a better understanding of the local rock composition. There is a rock formation to the west of the colony, as well as a larger rock structure to the northeast. Perhaps the scouting drone should be sent to one of these structures for a closer look?
While that project is on hold, the artist convinces the other colonists to let them start an art project on one of the uninhabited prefab shelters. They steal some time on the algae tank to manufacture 1 unit of red biopaint, which they use to repaint the shelter's white surfaces. (-1 Food Production this turn) The other colonists agree that red isn't very attractive, and that white was better. (+0 Morale) The artist is unperturbed - it was an experiment, after all.
The biologist spends some time researching hydroponics. They begin research on a Simple Hydroponics Vat (1 Turn to Blueprint Completion). Of course, that won't be much use without something to grow, and the GFP only saw fit to provide the colonists with algae samples. You can use the ansible to send a message to GFP asking for seeds in the next drop shipment, if you can spare the power. It'll be a while before anything they send can reach you, though.
In the meantime, you might want to consider building another Compact Algae Tank to help your colonists sustain themselves in the short term. (Building information updated with build prices - see first post, or below.)
The colonists debate the benefits of building a laboratory or a common room. They conclude that a laboratory would be very welcome, but that it will take time to plan (1 Turn to design blueprints for a Simple, General Purpose Laboratory). A common room, on the other hand, would be easy, since they can just scale up the blueprint for a Prefab Shelter. It won't be much - essentially just a pressurized, air-filled box with some simple chairs and a table - but it will give them a nicer space to socialize, eat algae-burgers together, and have community meetings without all needing to squeeze into a single prefab shelter. Only problem is, it'll take 25 plasticarbon units to build, which is more than you have right now. You'll have to dedicate the algae tank to growing plasticarbon instead of food. (Added to buildings list)
Food Consumed: 10 Units
Food Generated: 3 Units
Total Food: 13 Units
THE NUMBERS:
BUILDING INFORMATION
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - kilozombie - 01-03-2018
Food situation isn't great. To what extent can we ration things?
Build another algae tank, and if it can be operational on this turn, dedicate it and the other one to making plasticarbon. Next turn we should be able to build one additional algae tank and that'll be enough to sustain us while we grow more food backup and plasticarbon.
However, the supplies will also almost definitely contain food, so this might not be as necessary, but scientists eat fast. Let's not take any risks.
Also, ask the artist to chisel pieces off of the red paint to make patterns so that it's more appealing.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 01-03-2018
guys can we grow like
actual food
not sci-fi mush
i was dead fucking serious that cattle and farmland is far more useful to us than engineers and biologists
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - Justice Watch - 01-03-2018
If we don't get more food supplies, we will be out of food in two turns. Let's talk about rationing. We won't need to right now, but it is better to be prepared for the event rather than have disaster suddenly upon us. Ask for volunteers now to split rations later if it comes to that. We can take the hit to morale now if we get it back by averting the crisis altogether.
Have the scout look to the northeast, too; we need to be on the lookout for that supply crate.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - Justice Watch - 01-03-2018
Our research will also be best put to use making larger and more efficient algae tanks.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 01-03-2018
(01-03-2018, 02:46 AM)Justice Watch Wrote: »Our research will also be best put to use making larger and more efficient algae tanks.
GOD
NO
NOT MORE ALGAE TANKS
ARABLE GOD DAMN LAND
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - kilozombie - 01-03-2018
Feed the artist all the food. Get rid of everyone else, they're unnecessary. Robots can do all the work.
Debate if this is a serious suggestion or not.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - kilozombie - 01-03-2018
The artist, Shiva, begins plotting to be the only colonist standing. Incapable of actually murdering anyone else with limited tools, it will take ingenuity-- and years of planning.
RE: Sixty-four Pixel Colonists - FlanDab - 01-03-2018
Oh my god! What are you guys up to?! I was giggling under my breath during computer class when I saw this. I want potatoes and carrots. Hydroponics will probably do the trick. Algae doesn't exactly have the best taste.
Also, can somebody silence the artist pooper. I don't heckly like their homicide business.