Just a note. I did a tribal start, rocking the storyteller that is suppose to only do medival, and when I went to Prison camp...half the place was androids and they had battery powered turrets! ... I'm like a year in, and up till now, the biggest tech I saw was a PISTOL...
As others mentioned, the rewards are NOT worth the risk 4/5 times... Possibly, a calculator like the raids...check wealth of my colony. If "faction X" is asking me to save their people, they must think I have enough ability... yet I show up with slingshots and they got AK's, HEH.