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[10ebbor10]

First of: Backstory

Spoiler: Some information about the setting (click to show/hide)

This game takes place in a sprawling human empire, where star systems are connected by a network of jumpbeacons. Ships can use jumpdrives to travel between these beacons. Travelling outside the network is costly,  dangerous and ill advised. Some eighty years ago, a bloody conflict out between the Confederation of system and Galactic alliance. The Confederation, formed of most of the outer systems, attempted to secede from the alliance that governed the core planets. The war was bloody, and many a system were lost.

That was eighty years ago, and now you and some friends managed to gather enough credits to buy a derelict cargo freighter, and enough fuel to reach the outer rim and make your future there, amongst the ruins of the old colonies.

Spoiler: Possible colony locations (click to show/hide)

Gas giant (Harvestable fuel in atmos)
     -Moons (all types and sizes, most cold and low grav/athmos)
Gasgiant
     -Moons (all types and sizes, most cold and low grav/athmos)
- Asteroid belt
- Asteroid belt
- Barren planet [Bombarded]
      -Asteroid moon: Partly terraformed. Low atmos. Some ruins. Frozen, soil is mostly ice.
- Aquatic planet [bombarded]
      -Moon (lightly bombarded. Fully terraformed. Almost complete jungle, some ruins)
- Terrestial planet [bombarded, thick+ poisonous athmosphere]
      -Moon: [Habitable, desertlike with little water]
Vanguard

Spoiler: Your goods (click to show/hide)

- 2 Light mining vehicles
- Mining equipment + explosives
- Food for 6 months
- 6 Habitation buildings (50 people each)
- 2 specialized buildings of your chose
- 300 settlers
- Power installation of your choice
- 200 tools of your choice
- 50 weapons of your choice
- More stuff of your choice
- 3 vehicles of your choice
- Your cargo ship. Please name

Oh, you're also indepted to some fellows who escorted you on the way here. You owe them 2000 cargo units of whatever worthfull you want to produce.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Let's do the terrestrial planet.

A chemical manufactury, an engineering yard.

[10ebbor10]

I messed some more things. Also, the planets were bombarded with heavy nuclear explosives, biochemical weaponry and whatnot. Are you sure you want to settle there.
More work for me, since I haven't finished the list of horrific bioweapons and their effects, or the bioengineered monsters yet.

[scapheap]

Asteroid moon: Partly terraformed. Low atmos. Some ruins. Frozen, soil is mostly ice.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Asteroid moon: Partly terraformed. Low atmos. Some ruins. Frozen, soil is mostly ice.

I can live with this too.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

My suggestion is:

Half of the settlers here:

-Aquatic Planet Moon (lightly bombarded. Fully terraformed. Almost complete jungle, some ruins)

And half here:

-Asteroid moon: Partly terraformed. Low atmos. Some ruins. Frozen, soil is mostly ice.

This way, if one colony fails, we are not completely doomed, but we have a backup, and we can prompt trade of materials that are scarce on one moon, but not on the other, allowing both colonies to thrive.

[10ebbor10]

GM:Override

No. I could come up with a backstory explanation why you can't but the point is just that I don't want to manage two settlements. Besides, you only got one powersource system. The other colony would fail without power.

[mesor]

Asteroid moon: Partly terraformed. Low atmos. Some ruins. Frozen, soil is mostly ice.

I can live with this too.

Works for me as well.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

GM:Override

No. I could come up with a backstory explanation why you can't but the point is just that I don't want to manage two settlements. Besides, you only got one powersource system. The other colony would fail without power.

Hey sorry about salvation... I will be prompted to play when I get my laptop sent down. This can be a fun side project too, though.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I suggest to settle on the desert moon.

Why?
1) It's close to sun, free solar power. A lot of solar power. Same sun is good for hydroponic farming, tooo
2) Terrestrial planet will be resettled some day, our future trade partner and\or resource source
3) No great dangers like huge tidal forces, jungles or radiation
4) Closer to sun objects tend to have more metals to mine

As for equipment. Some ideas:

Power generation: Solar power plant
Vehicle: Gas scooping small ship\drone... basically work like that - enter planet atmosphere, gather air, compress it, return home with cargo (way to gather water among other things)
Equipment: Hydroponic farms

[GreatWyrmGold]

I vote aquatic planet. It's like a tropical Europa. Either that or its moon. I'd prefer the planet, though.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

I vote aquatic planet. It's like a tropical Europa. Either that or its moon. I'd prefer the planet, though.

Noo. No...

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Heavy polluted Aquatic planet is a very bad place to live. Pollution spread very well in water. Besides water based construction is hard to do

It's moon is slightly better, but still somewhat polluted and who knows what will we find in those jungles?

Our main concern is energy, not only solar power is easiest to use and maintain. It's much easier to produce new panels then make new fusion generator. And desert moon close to the star is the best place for solar planets...

My proposal for a start:


Land on the desert moon

- 2 Light mining vehicles
- Mining equipment + explosives
- Food for 6 months
- 6 Habitation buildings (50 people each)
- 1 hydroponic farm (If possible - combined with water purifier)
- 1 metal refinery (Or generic chemical processing plant.)
- 300 settlers
- Solar power plant
- 200 tools of your choice (how advanced they can be? I prefer to have it evenly spread between mining\metal processing and building)
- 50 weapons of your choice ( What scale? Anyway, we'll swim in energy and metals, so railguns. Many railguns. Or lasers)
- More stuff of your choice (Med supplies, spare parts for the solar plant, fuel, water)
- Tower crane
- Light tank\APC.
- Gas scooping small spaceship\drone
- Your cargo ship. Please name ( Survivor)


The main problem I see is water, but we should have most of it recycled.

[10ebbor10]

Both the tools and weapons are personnal. Think a really usefull shovel(which would be called, mining equipment) and a decent gun.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Heavy polluted Aquatic planet is a very bad place to live. Pollution spread very well in water. Besides water based construction is hard to do

It's moon is slightly better, but still somewhat polluted and who knows what will we find in those jungles?

Our main concern is energy, not only solar power is easiest to use and maintain. It's much easier to produce new panels then make new fusion generator. And desert moon close to the star is the best place for solar planets...

My proposal for a start:


Land on the desert moon

- 2 Light mining vehicles
- Mining equipment + explosives
- Food for 6 months
- 6 Habitation buildings (50 people each)
- 1 hydroponic farm (If possible - combined with water purifier)
- 1 metal refinery (Or generic chemical processing plant.)
- 300 settlers
- Solar power plant
- 200 tools of your choice (how advanced they can be? I prefer to have it evenly spread between mining\metal processing and building)
- 50 weapons of your choice ( What scale? Anyway, we'll swim in energy and metals, so railguns. Many railguns. Or lasers)
- More stuff of your choice (Med supplies, spare parts for the solar plant, fuel, water)
- Tower crane
- Light tank\APC.
- Gas scooping small spaceship\drone
- Your cargo ship. Please name ( Survivor)


The main problem I see is water, but we should have most of it recycled.

I support this guy. Change my vote to desert. I like that better anyway. Plus we don't know if there is water below the surface Or not.