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Remember folks. It's not about winning or losing your colony.
That being said, if you lose, you're still a loser.
*snicker*

What's your best losing story?
One time I afk'd and raiders killed everyone. It was supposed to be paused

M16 to the face. If they go unconcious and survive the beatings, they're good enough for my colony.

I like the rows of raider graves

People keep talking about how there will be no aliens and then others say there will be aliens. Whats the truth in the matter, Tynan? Will there be parasitic aliens like Xenomorphs or "The Thing" in the game? Or no aliens in general? Also, you mentioned a while back that Firefly was an inspiration... ever intend to include Reavers into the game (these would be a bit more depraved and nasty than regular raiders)?

There are no aliens. See the docs for more info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pIZyKif0bFbBWten4drrm7kfSSfvBoJPgG9-ywfN8j8/pub

I can't put Reavers in, exactly, for copyright reasons, but you could have the idea of a more psychotic kind of raider. However, there are some logical issues with this. Reavers always bothered me because their style of existence obviously isn't sustainable as an ongoing subculture. What do they eat? Where do they get fuel? How do they maintain and run complex machinery like starships? If we did psychotics they'd probably be smaller, temporary groups of recently-formed crazypeople.

Also, let's please keep these topics on their topic. If you want another question answered, start another topic!

They eat people, they're crazy and lost their humanity, but clearly still have the knowledge to modify their ships to run them to the point of not being safe to themselves. Also, they mounted and use weapons such as EMP weapons that wouldn't typically be used
Any fuel/food they need that isn't from what they raid could easily be from the planet that they were from. It had food/fuel for 1000 x the number of reavers that were made, so during their reaver lifespans, it's possible for them to not starve to death. Though they know where planets are if they get hungry.
That being said, reavers are not self sustaining and should die out someday.
Unless, perhaps, they can re-engineer the pax and gas another planet.
Just a thought.