Canis Minor

"Send 3 of the Can Interceptors on survey missions around the system to find resources and the remaining 2 to find fertile soil on the planet."
The Interceptors deploy from the colony ship and begin to map out the system. Further out in the system you discover an asteroid belt and a frozen planet beyond that. Both rich in water. and the asteroid belt is high in iron but lacks more valuable metals.

"Send the mining drones to the location where there are the highest concentrations of usable materials, send the agricultural drones to the most fertile soil on the planet."
The mining drones move to a cliff face a short distance away from the colony ship and begin to extract materials. raw metals and silica. Citizens begin moving ore with the mining bots to the small refinery in the colony.
The agricultural drones are unpacked by your civilians and begin the process of plowing and planting. +1 Agriculture next turn (along with food income)

"Have the colonists start laying out basic infrastructure - Roads, communication grids, power supplies, water supplies etc."
The Colony unpacks with glorious efficiency, Roads to the cliff face and the agricultural zones are laid, power supplies are setup and cabling laid for communications and power.

Gehenna

"Monitor communications frequencies for signs of life. If anything is found, send a Can to investigate."
Communications signals are detected from the other side of the star, a Can is sent to the star and begins to relay communications from you to the colony on the far side. (Stable communications established with Canis Minor.)

"Establish hazardous-environment industrial sector, consisting of several metal refinery stations suspended just above the molten asteroids."
The first of the refineries goes online that night, an incredible engineering feat. The second refinery's construction is underway. (+1 Refinery)

"Put the AMEC engineers and SAAT researchers to work on building schematics. More specifically, fireproof bunkers that will enable asteroid habitation."
The mission is put forward to the groups and they begin work, initial experiments are a failure however they continue with their work.

Have the interceptors continue scanning operations. Have the ones scanning the home world relay the data to the agricultural drones for maximum agricultural efficiency.

Send out surveyor groups of colonists in teams of 5 to find mineral deposits or areas of interest on the planet - Rivers and and areas of geological activity preferable. Send out larger groups of colonists in teams of 10 to find useful flora/fauna on the planet's surface.

Cannibalize everything we can from the colony ship. Focus on linking the reactor to the power grid, the life support system to the water supply, the communications array to the communication cables. Gut the ship for all usable components, then use it as temporary housing.

Did our colony ships come with any vehicles like scouting buggies or the like? I could use them to allow my surveyor teams to scout the terrain. Also, I don't suppose you have a list of systems the colony ship came with. Has the cannibalizing already been done when they unpacked, or do I have to issue that order?

Gungnir Industries

"Create a main colony on the jungle planet."
3 of the Can interceptors take a group of colonists to the planets surface who begin construction of a basic colony, parts manufactured on the colony ship are ferried to the surface.

"Start making some designs for a huge ass space station"
The plans are drawn up using the colony ship and conversion begins. The colony ship already in a stable orbit makes for an optimal solution.

"Create a small mining colony on one of the moons? If not, then just send some drones."
The remaining 2 Can's shuttle colonists to the moons of the 3rd planet. The mining drones go with them and begin to mine material's.

Canis Minor

"Have the interceptors continue scanning operations. Have the ones scanning the home world relay the data to the agricultural drones for maximum agricultural efficiency."
The interceptors relay their data to the homeworld and your mapped area expands discovering the edge of Gehenna space.

"Send out surveyor groups of colonists in teams of 5 to find mineral deposits or areas of interest on the planet - Rivers and and areas of geological activity preferable. Send out larger groups of colonists in teams of 10 to find useful flora/fauna on the planet's surface."
Surveyor teams discover a number of useful geological features. a deep and fast river flows from the mountains in the distance along with a nearby forest, Cataloging of local wildlife is underway swiftly

"Cannibalize everything we can from the colony ship. Focus on linking the reactor to the power grid, the life support system to the water supply, the communications array to the communication cables. Gut the ship for all usable components, then use it as temporary housing."
The reactor is linked to the power grid however a failure in the reactors linking causes a safety capacitor to blow killing 5 and damaging some of the heavy lift equipment. The reactor is brought offline temporarily and backup reactors keep life support and other vital systems online. Plans have been submitted to engineering to have new parts manufactured however it will take some time to have them refitted.
The cannibalization of the ship returns 1.5 tons of unused metal from now useless parts.

"Did our colony ships come with any vehicles like scouting buggies or the like? I could use them to allow my surveyor teams to scout the terrain. Also, I don't suppose you have a list of systems the colony ship came with. Has the cannibalizing already been done when they unpacked, or do I have to issue that order?"
the ships were designed to be entirely self sufficient when they reached their new planet, engineering crews can machine up a variety of parts from the onboard stocks. the cannibalizing doesnt happen so much, a more basic "unpacking" that happens automatically though.

Nono Entromiybo

"Start developing missiles filled with such a gas that break upon impact."
Work progresses well on the missiles your technicians finish construction of the first missile, a test firing puts them back to work as they attempt to design one for use in a vaccum. The first missile can be used against ships containing oxygen or in atmospheres that contain oxygen.

"Put more workers into food"
A conscription is decreed, boosting your food output. (+1 farming) (+1t of food)

"Look for a place to settle"
Scanner returns from inside the system reveal the closest planet to be arid and mostly covered in desert save for 2 bands at either pole seperated from the polar ice by a short span of ocean. Further out scanner returns show a more habitable terran planet.

Long range scanners return habitable planets at nearly every star save for F and H. You also detect propulsion drive returns from B, C, H and K As well as two new stars in the unmapped regions of space.

Gehenna

Strip agricultural drones of their equipment and store it for future use in hydroponics. Convert 2 into zero-g construction drones, convert another 2 into fireproof "land crawler" construction drones, convert the last 6 into mining drones.
The Engineers aboard convert the ships using current schematics, the Zero-G construction drones are completed with the extra jets added, more mass removed and welding / gripping armatures added. The mining drones are copies of the previous versions, while the Heat proof drones are incomplete due to lack of a sufficiently heat proof material. they can continue and make them "semi" heat proof but this means their operational lifespan would be much shorter.

Attempt to establish diplomatic dialogue with Canis Minor.
"So we're not alone out here."
Communications are established through the Can Interceptor at the stars edge.

Convert part of a habitation module into an advanced engineering training center. Give the population the option of a small pay and rank increase from AMEC Industries if they receive the certification.
The space is converted and the AMEC(tm) Certificate is born. Only a small turnout for the first courses, and it will take some time for the colonists to become certified.


Everyone felt the Nono Entromiybo colonies scan pulse. As ship systems registered the scan pulse, origin is unknown without triangulation.

Communication between groups can be done outside of actions if you have touching territory (you can create territory near others with just sending scouts over) Also as "the voice of the colony" you can be whatever, a king, council, AI, ruthless totalitarian Lord. During communication you can trade resources and bonuses or whatever you can think of really.

"Greetings from Canis Minor, the latest colony of Canis Maximus. We look forward to future cooperation."

Now for the actual actions

Continue scanning operations.

Start construction of a modular manufacturing complex, at least 6 modules. Expand currently existing manufacturing capabilities by enlarging the refinery. Have a construction crew start work on a new habitation area, preferably high density high rises.

Have our most gifted civilians and engineers form a Science Corps, and instruct them to design a mining vessel for asteroid mining purposes.

to Caek
"Canis Maximus? I can't place the name. Are you from Old Earth?"

Continue development on heat-resistant materials. If research succeeds, finish schematics for asteroid inhabitation and retrofit land crawler drones.

Attempt deep-core drilling on the largest asteroid in the cluster and scan for any anomalies within.

Begin cracking some of the smaller, unimportant asteroids. Loot their metal resources and refine them.

To Kebbit
"Yes. Canis Maximus is located in Europe, and stretching into Asia and the Middle East. Last statistical information recieved before we left communication range indicated a population higher then 2.5 billion people. Canis Minor is a colony established by the Canis Maximus Space Agency, CMSA for short."

to Caek
"So a lot has changed since we left... We slow boated over here. The last time SAAT tested a warp drive it obliterated SAATRS Javelin near Charon. Obliterated Charon, in fact. A lot of good men dead, and a lot of profits lost."

From now on blue text is Proktor Zakharov, SAAT head scientist for the Gehenna mission, and grey is AMEC corporate representative George Dagenham.

Canis Minor

"Continue scanning operations."
Scanning further abroad the Can Interceptors begin to map out new regions of space.

"Start construction of a modular manufacturing complex, at least 6 modules. Expand currently existing manufacturing capabilities by enlarging the refinery. Have a construction crew start work on a new habitation area, preferably high density high rises."
Work begins on construction of new modules. however troubles with the reactor draw skilled personnel away. The framework is underway for the refinery and first of the habitation towers. Expected time of completion ~3 turns.

"Have our most gifted civilians and engineers form a Science Corps, and instruct them to design a mining vessel for asteroid mining purposes."
The SciCorp is born. A conglomerate of gifted individuals for the furthering of engineering and scientific endeavors. The first project theyre given is a self sufficient mining vessel. Initial plans are drawn up involving and onboard refinery, drone bays and propulsion systems. Mining Vessel Alpha is ready for construction however the Engineers are currently busy with construction of the Habitation Towers, Expanded Manufacturing and the Reactor troubles. (+1 Science!)

Gungnir Industries

"Advance the colony"
Encounters with indigenous life-forms hamper progress, an incident with a pack of oversize gorilla like creatures causes a loss of one of the Can Interceptors along with a group of colonists. Arms from the colony ship are distributed amongst the surface colonists.

"Finish building awesome satellite"
The colony ship unpacks into its space station module. The ship now space-station covers twice the surface area it used to.

"Are inter-system communication relays possible?
If yes then build one
If no, start doing the science to make it possible."
Engineers and Scientists are placed on the inter-system communication project, ISCP reaches a workable solution quickly, the engineers erecting a large array on the "top" of the space-station. (you can now send and receive messages, though receiving is a little harder to any group around) Communication signals are detected from star C and H though the signals from H are unintelligible.

Gehenna

"Continue development on heat-resistant materials. If research succeeds, finish schematics for asteroid inhabitation and retrofit land crawler drones." A group from the AMEC Cert is posed the question, within hours they have theories and ideas everywhere. A workable prototype is tested inside the ships reactor and works beyond what they were expecting. The new Heat-Proof Land Crawlers are fitted with this new armor, manufacture of pre-built asteroid habs.

"Attempt deep-core drilling on the largest asteroid in the cluster and scan for any anomalies within."
Deep core drilling of the larger asteroids reveals cores of heavy metals, though the quality is highly dependent on their distance from the sun.

"Begin cracking some of the smaller, unimportant asteroids. Loot their metal resources and refine them."
At first the asteroids appear to be plain most of the way through however one asteroid contains some kind of ship or habitat that had been encased in molten metal. The unidentified object is carted back to the colony ship.

Nono Entromiybo

"Settle on Arrakis, desert planet."
The Settlement begins on Arrakis, The working class setup shop with ruthless efficiency as they prepare for the work ahead of them (+1 industry)

"Create mandatory sex laws so that more people are born. Increase population."
Mandatory Sex laws go into circulation, the controlled population take some time to adjust to the new laws, however a steep population rise is predicted.

"Develop more space ships."
The Heavy Interceptor is created, a Can but armed with missile hardpoints and extra armor.
A Cruiser, based off a smaller size of the colony ship is also designed, with point defense and light armor.

"Assign the moon as a production facility, get them to create another Can interceptor but prioritize the construction of 3 deep space probe"

"Send probes to
1: Check out the closest '?' system
2: Claim system F
3: Study the large scale movement at system H"

"Use science to find a way to defeat the gorilla menace!"

To C system,
"Greeting from Gungnir Industries, it is a welcome sight to see another colony this far out. What system are you from?"

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to Fail
"So there are more people out here? We came from Old Earth, along with Canis Minor."