So landing one it is! Note that each landing is at least hundreds of kilometers apart, if not thousands.
You debate about which landing to choose. In the end, you agree about choosing the first one (the rocky hills), and maybe expand to the mountains later. The workers are immediatly put to work and begin hauling supplies to the shuttles.
You have three functional shuttles. Two in the starboard hangar and one under the cloning facility (designed to transport cloning vats to the surface). Each shuttle can hold 12 clones (the pilot, ten passengers and the gunner for the small plasma turret. Yes, turret. In case of hostile fauna or whatever.) and 144m
3 of cargo. The third shuttle is the only one able to take cloning vats with it.
You may consider growing more clones, to crew all the shuttles. (you can grow 12 at a time)
Time to munchkin guys, here goes the numbers:
Supplies:-Food: 1m
3 for 16 daily rations, or 1 hydroponic (grant 3 food/day under optimal conditions)
-Housing: 8m
3 for a 6-clones hab
-Ressources: 12m
3 for an all-purpose mass extractor, 8m
3 for an energy generator (small), 8m
3 for a micro-factory (like a synthetiser from star trek, but not for food).
-Tools: 1m
3 is enough to equip 16 clones with various tools or survival kits (all-purpose medipack with emergency nutritional pills and heat sticks to crack and put in your suit)
-Suits: 1m
3 contain 8 suits (that are already pretty resilient) or 4 reinforced suits (the next best thing to power armour, which you dont have any)
-weapons: 1m
3 for 24 pistols / 12 rifles / 4 heavy weapons.
-Clones vats: 16m
3 for one (up to four in a shuttle, only one shuttle can have them.)
-Clone fluid cylinders: 3m
3 each. They carry one clone worth of fluid and can, when filled with 8 food units, convert them into 1 unit of clone fluid.
A shuttle have 144m
3 of cargo space. You have three of them, and you can make several trips. (for the sake of simplicity, all vehicles will use food units as fuel.)
Energy:-Small generators: +20-Houses: -4-Clone vats: -2 while growing a clone.
-Extractors: -3-Micro factories: -6 while fabricating.
-Hydroponics: -1Oh, and while I'm here: link to the shuttle I built: