User Guide

• Mission Year. The current year according to Earth’s Gregorian calendar.

• Energy Reserves. This is your faction’s total energy reserves currently avail-

able for investment.

• Ecological Damage. If this number is higher than 0, there is a chance each

turn that one of the squares in the production radius of this base will expe-

rience ecological disaster (see Ecological Risks, p. 54). The ecological dam-

age number represents a percentage chance, per turn, of an ecological acci-

dent happening in the base’s territory.

POPULATION

This bar below the data

readout shows every citizen in your base. You can L on the citizen’s icon to

change Workers into Specialists, or Specialists into Workers or different sorts

of Specialists. (See Citizens, p. 61.)

CONTROL BUTTONS

These buttons are located just beneath the Energy Allocation Readout.

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RENAME opens a dialogue box allowing you to change the name of the base.

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OK closes the Base Control Screen and resumes the current turn.

NUTRIENT TANKS

Each citizen in your base requires two

nutrients per turn to survive. Any nutri-

ents produced but not consumed (sur-

plus) go into the nutrient tanks, whose status is shown

in the upper left portion of the Base Control Screen. As

the tanks fill up, the dark green squares turn bright.

Green squares with a white outline represent the projected increase in the

tanks next turn, based on current production values. When the nutrient tanks

are completely “full,” your base increases its population by one, and the banks

return to empty.

COLONIZING PLANET

CHAPTER 4

Nutrients in Tanks

Projected Increase

in Tanks Next Turn