Turn 4
The Colony: (you might want to just follow this link instead since it's a big image: http://i.imgur.com/9ayua0V.png )Power: 50/50(+20/-2)
You have two of the bots pull back to a safe distance so they can safely provide cover fire in case the animals attack. You have the other two forge on ahead with the purpose of getting to that distress signal. The animals make a kind of gargling sound as the robots pass and the standing one appears to get into a kind of sprinting position but the bots appear to have passed by them without major incident.
You'd like to reverse engineer a laser rifle but all the rifles are with the fire-teams. You compromise and start reverse engineering the laser pistol to refresh your memory. It's a pretty simple design, about what you expected for something so cheap. You should have it figured out and blueprints written up in about a turn.
The clones finish their research. You now have the designs for a small pump (blueprint added).
Apparently the bulb brought to the clones will eventually mature and produce an edible fruit! The more you know. Apart from that the bulb has a few other traits: It reproduces asexually either from seeds produced by it's fruit or through the expansion of it's root systems (which will eventually develop into more bulbs) and the roots are poisonous. It is likely the poisonous roots are to stop animals eating the entire bulb and not just the fruit.
The Mining Rig hits a patch of rocks and the Oil Rig hits the water-table at about 15 meters down. You could have it pump up water, dig down deeper or turn it off for a while.
(EDIT) You see that the map information came through from ROD. You doubt this is all of his information but at least it was nice of him to mark down his location, what appears to be a native village and some 'nasties' whatever those are.
Research:Laser Pistol (1 turn left)
Resources/Food:15x Clone chow (delicious chicken flavor)
1x Bulb
1x Small Tree
6x Rock
Tools:1x Vegetation Gatherer
1x Handheld Mining equipment
1x Concrete applicator
Weapons:3x Laser Rifles
1x Laser Pistol
1x Emag Rifle
1x Emag Pistol
1x Machete
30x Emag Rounds
Robots/Clones:5x Standard Robots
1x Oil Rig
1x Mining Rig
2x Science clones (hired)
Your Modules/Equipment:Smelter
Oil Refiner
Loomery
Fabrication Workshop
Large Manufactury
Grinder
Medium Capacitor
2x Solar Panels
Fuel Burning Generator
Small Prefab
Research Computer bank
Communications Array
Hero(s):Hank Rearden(1): 1/100xp
- Is capable of weapons research.
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