(I'm pretty sure that I mentioned that barding and armor are the same and don't stack somewhere... I hope it wasn't only in a PM)
Wow, I wasted a lot of time debating steel armor vs iron armor+barding. And now I've got some flexible iron armor it turns out I don't want. I don't suppose I can change those three labor to research or making strong iron or something?
Aqua Kaolinae
1 compounds
Reduces the need for population food by 2 the turn it is applied, but not by more than half.
Wait, what? One unit of medics can feed 6,000 people, with no downside? That's kind of ridiculous. Maybe if it also reduced available labor, since it's not really that healthy to be eating lots of semi-food? Knocking off one labor per casting is probably too much, though; maybe double the cost and effect, then lose one labor per casting? That would be equivalent to spending compounds to access extra 4 food tiles (limited by total population), which sounds pretty reasonable.
Message of the Stars
2 mp
Allows the caster to send a message of up to 25 words to any being on the same plane known to and specified by the caster.
Uh, why?
Also, a reminder: The Tokk aren't really insectoid. They're just vaguely reminiscent of insects - they're bald and bug-eyed and have they shiny skin in a range of insect-appropriate colors. And they occasionally have small fairy wings, which are basically insect wings except that they have nothing to do with actually being bugs.
Also: Woo! New turn!