Quite apart from that, that is both costly and would detract from our true calling as a genetic tinkerer with a moral compass studded with magnets. We aren't turning ourselves into an arms manufacturer, or at least not until we have the clones to use the stuff we make, and we can't just summon money from thin air. Our greatest military and economic asset is our cloning. If we keep working on that, we can build our own workforce and security force, and produce other clones to sell, gathering funds for future expansions and arming our security. Heck, we could even consider hiring outside security while we concentrate on improving our cloning and manufacturing capabilities, which would enable us to transition to self-defense much more rapidly.
The one point where I've always agreed with Armok is that our central strength is our cloning prowess, and deviating from that could cause serious problems down the road.
Also, ebbor is correct in that we can produce much of what we need from local materials, allowing us to save our yollars for the important stuff (i.e. things we can't make, such as modules).
Other things we should consider are getting another comm so we can stay in contact with the combat team.
Also, we will only have 1 wood left, therefore I recommend that in the next day we send a worker and a guard to the forest to the southwest (bottom-left) to harvest from the forest, with orders to retreat if lobsterwolves are spotted AT ALL.
In the meantime:
>Order production of concrete, assuming it can be stored bare without anything happening.
>Order production of torches, place them mainly on the south and west borders.
>Order the miners and half the basics to go to sleep. If the other 2 combat clones return, order them to go to sleep as well. Go to sleep. Order the other clones to wake us and switch with the others after 7 hours have passed. Order the first-watch clones to wake us if we are under attack or anything suspicious is spotted.
>Before sleeping, contemplate our feelings to see if we have any bad vibes about tonight.
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