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[forsaken1111]

Alright, my colony analyser puts Mars at the easiest, with Titan, Mercury and Venus in the distance. While I enjoy the idea of sending colonists to freezing/scorching wastelands, how do I go about mining asteroids and comets?

Send an automated mine out to the asteroid or comet after making it a colony from the planets screen, then pick up your resources.

Alternately you can build asteroid mining ships for asteroids.

[Shade-o]

How do I send an automated mine out? I have a stack of them waiting on Earth.

[forsaken1111]

How do I send an automated mine out? I have a stack of them waiting on Earth.

Design a cargo ship and load it up. You did the tutorial right?

[Shade-o]

Well, I guess that I'll have to wait until my civilian shipyard is bigger then.

[forsaken1111]

Well, I guess that I'll have to wait until my civilian shipyard is bigger then.

Civvie yards are pretty cheap to expand.

[Shade-o]

Well, I stumbled into Design and decided to make a big-ass ship. I think that I've hit all the marks, but I don't know if it would be a powerful missile platform or a expensive piece of target practice. I think it could use more missiles and magazines, though.

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Chatham class Dreadnought    34700 tons     3557 Crew     5074.8 BP      TCS 694  TH 1320  EM 540
1902 km/s     Armour 1-94     Shields 18-300     Sensors 36/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 81     PPV 120
Annual Failure Rate: 118%    IFR: 1.7%    Maint Capacity 17404 MSP    Max Repair 150 MSP    Est Time: 13.47 Years
Flag Bridge    Magazine 2760   

Ion Engine E8 (22)    Power 60    Fuel Use 80%    Signature 60    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 1,050,000 Litres    Range 68.1 billion km   (414 days at full power)
Beta R300/12 Shields (12)   Total Fuel Cost  144 Litres per day

Size 5 Missile Launcher (24)    Missile Size 5    Rate of Fire 75
Missile Fire Control FC32-R56 (4)     Range 53.8m km    Resolution 56

Active Search Sensor S96-R56 (5)     GPS 5376     Range 53.8m km    Resolution 56
Active Search Sensor S48-R56 (10)     GPS 2688     Range 26.9m km    Resolution 56
Thermal Sensor TH6-36 (5)     Sensitivity 36     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  36m km

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes

[Shade-o]

Hooray, I built a fleet of small cargo ships which didn't violently decompress. They have shipped a few units of Infrastructure to Mars, and I see this as the beginning of something wonderful.

[forsaken1111]

It gets even better when you get your first civilian shipping line with a cargo or colony ship. They will move things around for you if you set up a contract.

[Shade-o]

How do Contracts work?

[Shade-o]

Hmm, a random asteroid has suddenly become a Civilian Mining Colony, with no input from me. It has a Deep Space Tracking Station and nothing else.

Further, Mars has started growing a population, despite me not even having a colony ship.

[forsaken1111]

Hmm, a random asteroid has suddenly become a Civilian Mining Colony, with no input from me. It has a Deep Space Tracking Station and nothing else.

Further, Mars has started growing a population, despite me not even having a colony ship.

Civilian mining colonies happen. You make money off of them in taxes, or you can buy their mineral output.

As for mars, do you have a shipping company with a colony ship?

[Shade-o]

Hmm, you're right. A shipping company with a colony ship has popped up, and has been ferrying people to Mars. I loaded it with infrastructure, and am putting Terraformers on it. I also put a bunch of automated miners on Phobos and have some cargo ships moving the minerals.

Once I have terraformers on a planet, how do I activate them?

[forsaken1111]

Terraforming facilities are rather big, it will probably take several trips to get them there. Once there you should be able to find the terraforming screen, I don't remember how to access it. I haven't even played the game in 6 months or so.

[Shade-o]

Oh, I found it. There's a nice big tab called 'Environment'.

[forsaken1111]

Oh, I found it. There's a nice big tab called 'Environment'.

That's the one!