Apparently people seem to want kids and/or clones in the game, kids need too much time to grow up and are a liability for the entire duration and clones a potentially endless source of colonists making them difficult to balance in terms of cost and abilities.
I may have stumbled upon a solution: modified sleeping pods, basically by combining pod, cloning, and VR(or neurotrainer) technology infants could be placed in modified pods to undergo accelerated growth in a relatively secure environment that also allows for some mental exercise.
This combines cloning and children into one mechanism that allows children to become useful colonists in a reasonable time-frame and limits the potential of large clone armies.
“Starting” skills would be largely dependent on available brain training technology with passions having a chance to be inherited and interests randomly forming (again certain tech/items might be able to influence this)
Body type would be decided by diet during hipergrowth stage (with hulks requiring both variety and quantity for example)
Due to accelerated growth food requirements would be proportionally increased providing a more interesting logistical challenge compared to simple power management (since you need to take variety into account there are more results than just success/fail)
This also opens up the door to another potential endgame : the self-sustaining colony, achievable by remaining above a certain threshold for a set amount of time and/or building a certain set of items.
Most ship parts can be repurposed for this situation:
Sleep pods become growth pods (by connecting to paste dispenser probably)
Ship structural beam becomes bunker support beam (with corresponding “reinforced constructed wall” for the area around it}
Ship AI becomes colony AI -this can range from a central power controller makes sure power is only delivered to items while in use and prevents surges- up to a digital avatar that keeps all colonists company and makes sure they do not go insane by reassigning tasks when required (basically something that automates the more tedious parts of colony micro)
Ship generator does not really ned to change ( although a static version could potentially yield more power or cost less due to easier cooling* and less room/G-force constraints)
Ship engines can become orbital catapults that allow permanent trading access with other developed settlements on the planet (developed meaning those that already have one)
*Things are harder to keep cool in a vacuum than most people realize
Bonus material :
“After decades of study and trials Duckhand&Warza™ have managed to exceed what was long considered the theoretical limit of plant productivity in a zero-tech environment by means of the new TripleS™[Segmented Stage Specialization™] genome technology that allows them to more than match the overall production and growth parameters of plants in an omnitemporaly bright environment by completely switching metabolic functions between a “gather” state during which the entire plant focuses on resource accumulation, and a “growth” state during with focus is shifted on converting previously gathered materials into useful elements (such as leaves, stalks and fruit).
The end result is 250% process efficiency during each phase (or 125% overall) resulting in hugely improved yields in unassisted conditions (while remaining a top contender for assisted growth scenarios).
While this in itself would be groundbreaking, TripleS™ genomes do all this while maintaining compatibility with industry standard technologies such as HD-M™ [Hiperionic Dermal Mosaic™] for 99.9% less time-related spoilage (compared to non HD-M genomes) as well as U-MADBRO™ [Ultra-Molecular Algorithmic Distribution Bio-Reaction Optimization™] that guarantees adaptability to all but the most inhospitable environments.
Clearly a better candidate for the colonization of newly terraform planets has not yet been produced, if ever it will be.
(Documents of Early colonization-Database)
Why do plants not grow at night
When I give them plenty light?
Do they sleep and dream of leafs
Have they hopes and thoughts and griefs?
When I cut them do they cry?
Do they know if when they die?
Speak to me that I may hear
While peel you my dear.
(“To Potato” by an empath chef, probably psychotic)
I may have stumbled upon a solution: modified sleeping pods, basically by combining pod, cloning, and VR(or neurotrainer) technology infants could be placed in modified pods to undergo accelerated growth in a relatively secure environment that also allows for some mental exercise.
This combines cloning and children into one mechanism that allows children to become useful colonists in a reasonable time-frame and limits the potential of large clone armies.
“Starting” skills would be largely dependent on available brain training technology with passions having a chance to be inherited and interests randomly forming (again certain tech/items might be able to influence this)
Body type would be decided by diet during hipergrowth stage (with hulks requiring both variety and quantity for example)
Due to accelerated growth food requirements would be proportionally increased providing a more interesting logistical challenge compared to simple power management (since you need to take variety into account there are more results than just success/fail)
This also opens up the door to another potential endgame : the self-sustaining colony, achievable by remaining above a certain threshold for a set amount of time and/or building a certain set of items.
Most ship parts can be repurposed for this situation:
Sleep pods become growth pods (by connecting to paste dispenser probably)
Ship structural beam becomes bunker support beam (with corresponding “reinforced constructed wall” for the area around it}
Ship AI becomes colony AI -this can range from a central power controller makes sure power is only delivered to items while in use and prevents surges- up to a digital avatar that keeps all colonists company and makes sure they do not go insane by reassigning tasks when required (basically something that automates the more tedious parts of colony micro)
Ship generator does not really ned to change ( although a static version could potentially yield more power or cost less due to easier cooling* and less room/G-force constraints)
Ship engines can become orbital catapults that allow permanent trading access with other developed settlements on the planet (developed meaning those that already have one)
*Things are harder to keep cool in a vacuum than most people realize
Bonus material :
“After decades of study and trials Duckhand&Warza™ have managed to exceed what was long considered the theoretical limit of plant productivity in a zero-tech environment by means of the new TripleS™[Segmented Stage Specialization™] genome technology that allows them to more than match the overall production and growth parameters of plants in an omnitemporaly bright environment by completely switching metabolic functions between a “gather” state during which the entire plant focuses on resource accumulation, and a “growth” state during with focus is shifted on converting previously gathered materials into useful elements (such as leaves, stalks and fruit).
The end result is 250% process efficiency during each phase (or 125% overall) resulting in hugely improved yields in unassisted conditions (while remaining a top contender for assisted growth scenarios).
While this in itself would be groundbreaking, TripleS™ genomes do all this while maintaining compatibility with industry standard technologies such as HD-M™ [Hiperionic Dermal Mosaic™] for 99.9% less time-related spoilage (compared to non HD-M genomes) as well as U-MADBRO™ [Ultra-Molecular Algorithmic Distribution Bio-Reaction Optimization™] that guarantees adaptability to all but the most inhospitable environments.
Clearly a better candidate for the colonization of newly terraform planets has not yet been produced, if ever it will be.
(Documents of Early colonization-Database)
Why do plants not grow at night
When I give them plenty light?
Do they sleep and dream of leafs
Have they hopes and thoughts and griefs?
When I cut them do they cry?
Do they know if when they die?
Speak to me that I may hear
While peel you my dear.
(“To Potato” by an empath chef, probably psychotic)