Colonies are ways for Nauts to push humanity (And possibly other species) further out amongst the stars. Colonies play an important role in the universe, and can only be founded by Aerospace Companies. That said, colonies can later be sold, and other industry types are required to get a colony performing a maximum functionality.
Colony Founding Steps
1.) Colony expedition must be created. This requires the following…
Expedition Headquarters building
Expedition Communications building
Expedition Landing Pad building
Expedition Living Quarters building
Expedition Storage building
Science Team
Security Team
Supplies For all of the above
2.) Once expedition has landed and constructed facilities and has been supplied, it will begin surveying and prepping the surface for colonization.
3.) Once preparation and surveying is completed, the colony is ready for founding. It will require x amount of infrastructure per 1,000 population, and other necessities like food, water and power.
3a.) Colonists are generated only be purchasing them from the Colonial Point market. Each CP grants 50 colonists. Upon redemption colonists can be picked up at any Sol T2 station. A colony requires 10,000 colonists before it is considered a colony, and 100,000 colonists before it’s population can begin reproducing on it’s own.
3b) All colony structures are manufactured only by manufacturing companies and may be available on the Galactic Market. All colony structures can only be constructed by player construction companies (Note: NPC’s are available to do these tasks at a large cost/time detriment.)
4.) Once a colony is constructed and officially founded with atleast 100k colonists, you can begin to add in industries to the colony. These include Mining, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Tourism and more. However, as always, the NPC options for these are not very cost effective compared to finding a player who has the necessary industry skills, so be sure to ask around!
Colonies Generate 1 ISC per day in tax income per million citizens. In order to expand your citizen base, you must continue to provide infrastructure.
More to come!