User Guide

COLONIZING PLANET

CHAPTER 4

• OBSOLETE. The unit type is removed from your Production Readout.

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UPGRADE. Upgrades all units of this type to a superior design, if one is available.

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CANCEL. Closes the Design Window with no changes.

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RETIRE. Disbands all units of this type, and removes the unit type from your

Production Readout.

BASIC UNIT TYPES

Certain unit types begin the game already designed and prototyped:

• Colony Pod

• Basic Formers and Sea Formers (Super Formers can be modified)

• Scout Patrol

• Transport Foil and Supply Crawler

• Probe Team

• Native life-forms—mind worms, Isles of the Deep, Locusts of Chiron

• Alien Artifact (cannot be built, must be found)

• Unity units—Unity Rover, Unity Scout Chopper, Unity Foil (cannot be built,

must be found)

As your technology advances you may want to design newer, more powerful

units to fulfill these roles.

MORALE/LIFECYCLE

One of the most important aspects of any given unit is its morale—its overall

discipline and experience. There are several levels of morale. Morale for native

life-forms (mind worms, Isles of the Deep and Locusts of Chiron) is called life-

cycle level, since a native unit’s morale reflects not only the experience of its

human handlers, but also its physical maturity.