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#1
Ideas / Placing floors should remove filthy things
July 28, 2017, 06:20:29 PM
I don't know if this has been suggested before but... here goes!

And by filthy things I mean sand, blood, dirt mud and whatever else the colonists got off their feet before the floor was placed.

It's a tiiiny bit weird that currently if you chop up a person and you make a pool of blood, when you decide to put down a wooden floor to redecorate the kitchen, the colonists make sure somehow move the blood on top of the planks before placing the planks down.

What should happen is placing floors on top of filth should remove said filth.

Edit: To think about it it should be in the "Cheapest ideas" section but... it's 2AM and I'm tired! (I'm sorry Lord Tynan please don't capture me and harvest my organs)
#2
Support / Question
August 27, 2014, 02:07:07 PM
May I put forum support stuff here as well?

I'd like to know of a way to bypass the characters limit for my story thread. Else it'll get kinda messy having it like:

Day X
Day Y
"Nice story!"
"Keep writing please!"
Day Z

Maybe also a way to add a spoiler thing? So it's not a giant chunk of text?
#3
Stories / Story of R'Akas
August 24, 2014, 04:53:32 AM
Greetings :) I'm going to be writing this fiction fan story based on this game... some things aren't going to match as up game seeing as... I don't have it =)) Don't kick me out yet please... take a seat, enjoy my story, I'm going to write a log per day in game time for a while, then I'll start skipping weeks so I don't end up having to write every day for a year for the colony anniversary. (If there's a way to add a spoilers bubble in this forum please tell me so, it'll make things much easier and I'll just edit the main thing rather than replying a new chapter)

Character Backstory:

1){  RE
Coma child
"A childhood accident put RE into a coma. He didn't wake up until he/she was in his late teens. His body never recovered from the years of inactivity, but people tend to take pity on him when they hear his story."

Medieval lord
"RE was a lord on a industrial planet. He went to parties, managed the underlings, and even learned some swordplay.
His soft hands did not hold a work tool during that entire time. He considers manual labor to be beneath him."
}


2){ Wej Jerolz (Wej pronounced as Wey)

Caveworld tender
"WJ grew up in a cave complex deep beneath the surface of an inhospitable world. He worked with the children tending the tribe's fungus crop."

Colony settler
"WJ was a settler on a new colony world.
Such a life requires a jack-of-all trades at basic hands-on tasks."
}

3){ Silvana Meres

Medieval slave
"Silvana grew up pulling carts and digging holes on a medieval world. Simple manual labor is her oldest companion - along with the master's leash.
She didn't learn to read until age nine."

Courtesean*
"Silvana was used for her body by hundreds of customers in brothels on several planets. She gained some mental marks and a special kind of street smarts."
}

Captain's Log, Day 1.
1st of May, Year 1 (Since arriving on the planet)

My name is... not important... the two people that decided to follow me just call me RE, or Captain... I am the one that started this "mission"... with our goal to make a new home on this planet...

Our landing pods crashed in the northern part of the main continent... this is a frozen land, with a few patches of grass... we land in a valley next to a river coming down from a nearby mountain... as all our provisions crash, I get up and look around the area... Trees seem to have adapted to survive to this frozen wasteland, with other different bushes that hold what seem to be local fruit...

"WJ, you should go and cut down some trees until we freeze to death... Silvana, please help me haul the resources next to the nearby mountain. We don't have enough resources to build a standing structure yet, we shall dig our home for just now..."

"Yes Sir" they both say in unison...

I've met Wej... WJ in a tavern after I've left my home planet... I loved that place... I was a King over a big  region but... it wasn't that... well... it's hard to explain...

As we move all the materials and the newly picked logs next to the side of a mountain, we start digging a doorway, then a hall... which shortly turns into the first room, the sun is in the middle of the sky...

And Silvana she... had a bad past... I saved her shortly after deciding to try and get the things needed to start a colony... she swore her life to me and until now... I didn't fail to give her a life at least better than she had.

We have our lunch as a snow storm starts outside. Although that means our food won't spoil anytime soon... it'll still be harsh...

"WJ, let's make a small camp fire in the middle of the room..." I say... we've dug what will be the entrance of our future colony into this rock which seems to be strong... We've prepared with clothes for any weather which is a good thing... although I see no animals moving outside our cave... with this weather I'm not surprised. This isn't good news... we'll have to try and find a way to farm in this...

"At least with this weather we know we won't have neighbours anytime soon" Silvana says while finishing the survival meals we have... eating on the cold stone floor isn't too good... but the fire makes the atmosphere better.

"I did gather a bit of wood but... there's not much outside. We'll have to plant and hope for the best" WJ tells me...

"Do you want to go out on this weather?" I ask.

"Indeed... Hopefully we won't find some haunted cave anytime soon" says WJ.

We did use some logs for this fire... but it'll stay light at least for the rest of the day... "We should make some beds" I say, following with "I hope you don't want separate rooms just yet".

"I don't mind sharing either a room or bed with you" Silvana says, to which Wej says in a worried voice: "I hope you two don't want some privacy... no way in hell I'm going out on this storm..."

After a few moments of silence we all laugh, after we start working and finish the beds we start digging a hallway... the storm soon ends and we get to see the sun set on the horizon... an orange sun...

"This is different from all the worlds I've seen..." Silvana says...

I guess should change the subject...

"Let's start making a small farm... whatever these fruits are... they're not poisonous, I saw a small white creature eat them after the storm ended while you were still digging..."

"Well we know there are animals... there won't be any hostile ones hopefully" WJ says...

We stay a bit outside after planting the farms and a few trees... the sky is filled with stars... it is indeed a beautiful view... We put some wood on the fire and get into our beds... we covered the entrance with some snow... hopefully an earthquake won't bury us here...

This is the beginning... This is...

"R'Akas" I say out loud...

"What?" Silvana asks me... while WJ is snoring... he really disliked the flight in space... was tired when we got here already and after cutting the trees... no wonder

"R'Akas shall be our colony's name..." I say...

And indeed it is...


Captain's Log, Day 2.
2nd of May, Year 1

WJ was the first to wake up... he uncovered the entrance to our cave and woke the rest of us up...

"Guys, look at this..." he said. Getting out of bed while letting out a big yawn I walk out of our cave... in front of us the moon is setting down... it is big, and has a smaller moon orbiting it...

"It looks gray" WJ says... "Do you think that there's life there?"

"I don't remember the scan results..." I say. "Maybe one day when we'll have advanced enough, we'll know..."

"It's beautiful..." Silvana says.

Now that we've woken up so early... we should start getting to work, after all we need to be self sufficient soon... "WJ and Silvana you should start digging the hallway deeper into the mountain... we'll start making our own rooms soon, and maybe a storage..." I tell both of them.

As they get to work I go outside stepping on the fresh snow that fell during the night... hearing the sounds of their drills breaking through rock... To my right there's a river... it's probably not frozen because it moves quite rapidly... it comes down from somewhere higher up in the mountain and goes a long way through this flat land, going downhill at some point probably... unless it just vanishes into the ground.

I walk through to some of the bushes that seem to grow here... these purplish fruits seem to be MADE for this type of biome... ripping one of them in half is quite hard, they have a solid interior with not much liquid and the seeds are many placed in the center. I walk towards a nearby tree and chop it down and start pulling it towards our cave... I'll have to build a small roof to protect the resources we have outside until we dig the storage space.

I cut another tree... pull it back to the cave and start cutting it down into planks and work on a cover for the outside storage area. WJ comes outside with a boulder tied to him, rolling it behind him as he walks.

"We've found some metal" he says.

"Good" I answer back. "We're going to need it in the future... if the mountain is rich in it, things will go better..."

"We've got to make a cooking table" he says "These survival meals aren't going to last long..." he continues as he moves the chunk of rock and metal in the storage area.

"And cook what?" I ask while laughing. "We'll probably live off jam made out of these weird fruits for a while... at least until we get farms made inside the mountain."

He lets out a gutural sound as he walks back in... The sun is at the top of the sky... this seems to be a day without major events...
After finishing the cover for the storage outside I take a few planks and stick them on the fire.

"Let's have lunch, shall we?" I yell. They did dig quite a lot of the hall, also a small entrance to the left... There will be Silvana's room...

They both go outside and grab their meals... we'll still have them to last us for about 3 days... They come and sit around the fire and start eating.

WJ starts speaking: "These taste much better than anything they served at that Imperial Tavern"

"That's because you actually worked before eating" I say in a happy tone of voice.

"You're saying that as if I didn't work on that Aers-7 Colony for the Empire..." he tells me back.

"Oh, and what did you work as?" Silvana asks.

"Erm... I... I forgot" he says in a matter of avoiding the discussion.

"Hahaha" I burst out laughing, and thne follow with: "He was a farmer for the empire on a new colony on a barren world. He grew cacti of many sorts, as to why his hands are scarred that he has to wear gloves."

Silvana starts chuckling.

"Hey now! Ugh..." Wej says looking at the floor awkward and taking a bite from the meat of his meal...

"It's alright..." Silvana says trying to comfort him.

I finish my meal and head outside, while saying back inside the room so they may hear me: "I'm going to plant a few saplings in this snow... or maybe I can find the dirt underneath it, then I'll start working on a solar panel... you should finish digging Silvanas room and then move the bed in there... maybe lay down some cables for tomorrow..."

As their drills once again start making the sound of rock-eating, I dig some small holes in the ground where I put some saplings from the trees I cut... then I lay down a base of metal plates, and start welding on a solar panel...

As the sounds of their drills stop, I as well finish making most of the solar panel. I'm not too good of a builder... and the start is closing in on the horizon, it'll start to set soon.

"Wej is back there cleaning... we also moved my bed... where do you want the wirings?" Silvana asks me coming out, the cold wind hitting the sweat on her forehead.

"Umm... from here inside the cave and through the hallway. We'll also need a light so we can stop wasting wood on that fire." I answer, then I ask her: "This is quite the slow progress is it not?"

"I don't know, " Silvana says, "I've not started a colony before..."

A weird noise can be heard from the distance, which makes WJ come out running of the cave yelling "I heard that! What's that?"

He steps outside and the three of us start walking... as we move past the trees we reach the end of the hill, and looking bellow at another valley we can see big creatures, with 6 legs and covered in black fur, they seem to be a herd of some type of herbivores...

"Cows?" WJ asks with a funny tone.

"Hah, I guess so" I tell him...

"The clouds... I think another storm is coming... we should get back to the cave..." Silvana says.

"Cave? No... Let's get back to our home... R'Akas" I say, followed by: "And maybe build a door... by tomorrow we'll have the power to have it open by itself."

The three of us start walking back home... the small entrance in the mountain isn't that easy to see... it just stands out from the dark gray rock and the white snow.

As we get inside, we build the door that we have to open and close manually for now... put some wood on the fire, we're getting quite low on wood, and watch the sun set before we go to sleep... Silvana goes in her room as we sleep in our beds that are still in the fireplace room.

"I hope it won't be too cold for her" I tell WJ

"Don't worry..." He says...

I fall asleep thinking about what we did today... we have a journey ahead of us...




Captain's Log, Day 3.
3rd of May, Year 1

I overslept today. They didn't want to wake me up, but they did when they started drilling... I open my eyes hardly, as if they were frozen

closed... Why am I so tired, especially since I slept more than anyone else...

"How are you feeling?" Silvana asks me, then yells inside the cave "WJ! He's awake!" The drilling sound stops, and Wej comes near me.

"How's your head friend?" he asks me, followed by "Silvana, bring some snow from outside".

Silvana heads outside the cave as Wej starts explaining me what happened during the night.

"So during the night, in front of our little home a weird machine fell from the sky... Silvana said it made a crashing noise that woke her up,

which is weird since..."

I intrerupt him finishing his sentence "Since she slept inside in her own room..."

"Indeed" Wej says, as Silvana comes with some snow in her hands.

"Here" she says, as she places the snow on my forehead while I lay back down on my back.

"I'm alright" I say

"You're not... it was a long night" she says.

"So that machine that fell from space?" I ask, and Wej answers me: "It was a mind control drone of sorts... it tried to do something to us but...

luckily not even a meteor could wake us up."

"When that thing fell from the sky I instantly woke up and ran outside" Silvana says, "when I got to it the outer shell was opened and a pole

was lifted upward, like an antena of sorts... When I returned to the cave you were both sleeping in your beds but you were shaking... I tried

waking you up with no success... so I just ran out and destroyed it..."

"Did you shoot it?" I ask.

"No, I used my drill" Silvana says...

"That's good that you didn't waste bullets but... if that thing would've fought back... don't get yourself in danger" I say

"Should've I let it to it's thing and take over your mind?" she asks in a serious tone.

After a moment of silence the three of us burst into laughter, and the snow falls off my face.

"Oh look it fell down... needed an excuse to get that off of me" I say as I get up from the bed... I do feel a bit dizzy.

"Take it easy..." WJ says. "You don't have much work to do today, we finished the solar panel and placed the wirings, although we didn't

start working on the lights yet we did dig a bit of my room on the right of the hallway.

"That's good... But I don't want to be just someone that eats the food and does nothing..."

"Oh but of course you can help!" Silvana says in a cheerful tone. "Just go and rip that machine apart while we keep digging..."

"Yes Ma'am!" I say while saluting.

As I turn around and leave through the door that opened by itself in a marching manner, I can hear both of them laughing inside the cave... I

should stop calling it cave... I guess I'll be calling it the main hall... So where is this thing... it must be nearby... I look around for a few

seconds and indeed see something out of place...

Getting close to it it seems to be... obviously not working. I guess Silvana did a good job. It's got a round shape at the base... I guess it was

encased in a protective material... Inside there's, erm, whatever's left of the transmission antenna... and... Yeah I'm just going to rip it apart

and carry it back... Also going past the farm it seems that these purple fruits are starting to grow... if it is a 3 days cycle it won't be that hard

to stock up a lot of them...

The sun is going to set down soon... today we're going to have our dinner outside... We've finished digging WJ's room and they say they

have a surprise for me...

We have some wooden chairs and made a small campfire... this'll be the last night we'll have this until we manage to grow the trees... but I

don't see why...

"You're not eating?" Silvana says, intrerupting my train of thoughts...

"I was just thinking..." I say with a small pause... followed by "It's just that... I barely did anything today... I don't want you two to look at me

like..."

I get intrerupted again. But this time by WJ.

"Stop thinking like that" he says as he sucks in the pasta from the survival meal. "It was a rough night. It took me a while to get back to my

own things as well... I guess you were more affected by it..."

More affected... truthfully I did have a weird dream...

I take a bite of the... erm... whatever food this is... It does taste good...

"Soo... about that surprise..." Silvana says.

"Yes?" - I ask her.

"We finished digging WJ's room and started going further on the hallway. At the end of it we were going to put your room but..."

"Go on..." I say.

"We discovered a room that was already there..." she says.

"In the middle of the mountain? Was there anything in it?" I ask.

"We don't know" Wej says, "we didn't look inside it. But we dug through a wall... it's still dark as heck... we'll let you explore... but we'll have

to make an entrace install the lights and move your bed in tomorrow."

"That sure makes up for the fact that I didn't dig at all... don't worry, I shall help you tomorrow... I promise..." I say as I finish my meal with

the sun starting to set...

"We have no batteries yet so it'll get dark... you'll be sleeping by yourself at the entrance... you want the rifle with you?" Silvana asks me.

"I guess so... but we don't have many bullets" I answer...

"Don't worry, I'll get you a promise as I said" WJ says as he finishes his meal.

Indeed... he swore in the tavern one day... although he was drunk when I rememberd him he said that he'll keep his word... he owes me a

sword...

We put out the fire and head inside, the solar panel no longer powers the few lights inside so it becomes dark soon... I take one of our last...

Well really, our LAST plank and put it infront of the door...

"At least if something tries to break in, it'll have a bit more work to do..." I say out loud to myself... Neither Wej or Silvana heard me...

I get in bed and close my eyes... I hope food won't become a problem...