Keeper_GFA
Prince
Excerpts of the early years after Planetfall, from the journals of Commander Sheng-ji Yang, Chairman of the Human Hive.
Year 2100 - PLANETFALL! The U.N.S. Unity is destroyed, but I have landed safely on the planet with a small group of people loyal to me. My scouts have made an amazing find. It is some sort of building or structure, obviously decayed from time. Initial translations call it a "Manifold Nexus" and we will make the study of this Nexus a priority. I am directing my people to settle a base along a nearby river and I will use what supplies we have to manufacture a rover, one of the vehicles designed for the Unity mission, to help in the recovery of downed supply pods.
2101 - MONOLITH! We have discovered another alien structure. It appears to be some sort of Monolith, and it has definite ties to the previously discovered Nexus. My scientists say that our research into the Xenobiology of this Planet will have a significant impact on our ability to recover food and resources from the land surrounding these objects.
2103 - ALIENS! My people have worked hard to secure the area immediately around the Hive and when they were able to expand our territory to include the Nexus and Monolith, another shocking discovery was made. To the north-east of our base are several groups of alien lifeforms. Not simply plants, these are animals and possibly predatory.
2107 - ATTACK! I had initially planned to send our newly trained scouts out to investigate the nearby alien lifeforms, but ordered them to return when they found a group of the aliens moving towards the Hive. The alien creatures attacked the Hive by launching some sort of fungal spores through the air. My scouts held the line at the riverbank on the northern edge of the base and destroyed all of the attacking creatures.
2111 - EXPLORE! My scouts have met with scouts following Prokhor Zakharov. I have communicated directly with him and we have agreed to leave each other be in peace, for now. A Unity Rover patrol searching for crashed supply pods has found a somewhat intact Cryobay from the Unity. It will likely take years to return the bay to the Hive, but it will be worth it once I release the surviving crew from their cryopods.
2112 - BREAKTHROUGH! My scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the field of Xenobiology. This discovery coincides with the building of a major field lab to aid in studying the nearby Monolith. Using our new found knowledge of the planet's ecosystem, we will now be able to work the lands around the alien structures. These lands are far more fertile and productive, and our scientists will gather much more knowledge from their direct study. I will also order our engineers to build a lab dedicated to the continued research of this planet's native biology.
2113 - EXTERMINATE! We have spent several years dedicated to the arming of Scout Patrols and they have been entirely successful in hunting down and exterminating the spore launching aliens. They also found that the aliens seemed to propagate from a specific region of fungus which was being guarded by another, wormlike, alien lifeform. Not knowing what to expect from these new aliens, I gathered all available Scout Patrols and ordered my newest (and most poorly trained) recruits to attack. The reports from the first battle are filled with madness and the patrol involved was killed to a man. In the followup attack another, more experienced, patrol finished off the worms and destroyed the spot from which they were spawning. The second patrol's reports indicate that the worms seem to use some form psychic mind attack to disable a person before consuming him.
2115 - CHOPPERS! It has been a great year for our roving scouts, as they have separately recovered two working Choppers from crashed supply pods.
2117 - PEACEKEEPERS! My scouts have reported contact with other humans following a U.N. banner. It turns out that Lal has also survived Planetfall and is seeking to find and reunite other survivors back under the original Unity mission. I placated him but was otherwise non-committal. I have no desire to return to the petty diplomatic squabbles that doomed the Unity.
2118 - WONDER! At last the recovery of the Unity Cryobay has been completed. The crew have been released from stasis and are acclimating quite well to the current situation. While recovering the cryobay, one of the medical officers came up with some excellent new ideas. He is now in charge of the Hive's supply of food and medicine.
2119 - EXPLORE! One of the Unity Rovers has found a Gunfoil along the shores far to the west. They got it working again and found an unguarded Spawning Spot in some fungus out from shore. While razing the spawn area, however, a seaborne version of the alien worms attacked. The Gunfoil was lost with all hands. Another of my scouts made a great find with some parts of the Unity's library computer containing an entire section of the datalinks on Defense Logistics. It had design plans for flamethrower units which I think will also aid the workers in clearing some of this alien fungus. Also during this year I met with Nwabudike, the "Director" of Morgan Industries. That greedy, arrogant, capitalist pig! Our conversation was brief to say the least.
2122 - DISCOVERY! Another bit of luck with the find of a second piece of the Unity's library computer. This time my scientists were able to recover information on Bio-Engineering.
2129 - Summary. The first thirty years of human life on this planet has been surprisingly good for me and the people of the Hive. Some of my advisers resented my initial decision to use our only supplies to build a Unity Rover, preferring instead to build a former to help terraform this Planet. But my foresight and wisdom have been rewarded over the years. The Unity Rover team, with only occasional aid from a few Scout Patrols, has found and recovered countless supplies of energy, the Unity Cryobay, a couple more Unity Rovers, a couple of Choppers, a couple of technological breakthroughs, a couple of geological surveys, and a working Former unit. The Hive has grown to be the largest base of humans on this planet and there are plans in the works to establish new bases, including one to secure some alien ruins far to the west. I have communicated with 4 other Unity survivors, each leading their own "faction". There is much caution in our dealings with one another, and I am sure that one day suspicion will turn to aggression. I must be ready for that day.
Year 2100 - PLANETFALL! The U.N.S. Unity is destroyed, but I have landed safely on the planet with a small group of people loyal to me. My scouts have made an amazing find. It is some sort of building or structure, obviously decayed from time. Initial translations call it a "Manifold Nexus" and we will make the study of this Nexus a priority. I am directing my people to settle a base along a nearby river and I will use what supplies we have to manufacture a rover, one of the vehicles designed for the Unity mission, to help in the recovery of downed supply pods.
2101 - MONOLITH! We have discovered another alien structure. It appears to be some sort of Monolith, and it has definite ties to the previously discovered Nexus. My scientists say that our research into the Xenobiology of this Planet will have a significant impact on our ability to recover food and resources from the land surrounding these objects.
2103 - ALIENS! My people have worked hard to secure the area immediately around the Hive and when they were able to expand our territory to include the Nexus and Monolith, another shocking discovery was made. To the north-east of our base are several groups of alien lifeforms. Not simply plants, these are animals and possibly predatory.
2107 - ATTACK! I had initially planned to send our newly trained scouts out to investigate the nearby alien lifeforms, but ordered them to return when they found a group of the aliens moving towards the Hive. The alien creatures attacked the Hive by launching some sort of fungal spores through the air. My scouts held the line at the riverbank on the northern edge of the base and destroyed all of the attacking creatures.
2111 - EXPLORE! My scouts have met with scouts following Prokhor Zakharov. I have communicated directly with him and we have agreed to leave each other be in peace, for now. A Unity Rover patrol searching for crashed supply pods has found a somewhat intact Cryobay from the Unity. It will likely take years to return the bay to the Hive, but it will be worth it once I release the surviving crew from their cryopods.
2112 - BREAKTHROUGH! My scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the field of Xenobiology. This discovery coincides with the building of a major field lab to aid in studying the nearby Monolith. Using our new found knowledge of the planet's ecosystem, we will now be able to work the lands around the alien structures. These lands are far more fertile and productive, and our scientists will gather much more knowledge from their direct study. I will also order our engineers to build a lab dedicated to the continued research of this planet's native biology.
2113 - EXTERMINATE! We have spent several years dedicated to the arming of Scout Patrols and they have been entirely successful in hunting down and exterminating the spore launching aliens. They also found that the aliens seemed to propagate from a specific region of fungus which was being guarded by another, wormlike, alien lifeform. Not knowing what to expect from these new aliens, I gathered all available Scout Patrols and ordered my newest (and most poorly trained) recruits to attack. The reports from the first battle are filled with madness and the patrol involved was killed to a man. In the followup attack another, more experienced, patrol finished off the worms and destroyed the spot from which they were spawning. The second patrol's reports indicate that the worms seem to use some form psychic mind attack to disable a person before consuming him.
2115 - CHOPPERS! It has been a great year for our roving scouts, as they have separately recovered two working Choppers from crashed supply pods.
2117 - PEACEKEEPERS! My scouts have reported contact with other humans following a U.N. banner. It turns out that Lal has also survived Planetfall and is seeking to find and reunite other survivors back under the original Unity mission. I placated him but was otherwise non-committal. I have no desire to return to the petty diplomatic squabbles that doomed the Unity.
2118 - WONDER! At last the recovery of the Unity Cryobay has been completed. The crew have been released from stasis and are acclimating quite well to the current situation. While recovering the cryobay, one of the medical officers came up with some excellent new ideas. He is now in charge of the Hive's supply of food and medicine.
2119 - EXPLORE! One of the Unity Rovers has found a Gunfoil along the shores far to the west. They got it working again and found an unguarded Spawning Spot in some fungus out from shore. While razing the spawn area, however, a seaborne version of the alien worms attacked. The Gunfoil was lost with all hands. Another of my scouts made a great find with some parts of the Unity's library computer containing an entire section of the datalinks on Defense Logistics. It had design plans for flamethrower units which I think will also aid the workers in clearing some of this alien fungus. Also during this year I met with Nwabudike, the "Director" of Morgan Industries. That greedy, arrogant, capitalist pig! Our conversation was brief to say the least.
2122 - DISCOVERY! Another bit of luck with the find of a second piece of the Unity's library computer. This time my scientists were able to recover information on Bio-Engineering.
2129 - Summary. The first thirty years of human life on this planet has been surprisingly good for me and the people of the Hive. Some of my advisers resented my initial decision to use our only supplies to build a Unity Rover, preferring instead to build a former to help terraform this Planet. But my foresight and wisdom have been rewarded over the years. The Unity Rover team, with only occasional aid from a few Scout Patrols, has found and recovered countless supplies of energy, the Unity Cryobay, a couple more Unity Rovers, a couple of Choppers, a couple of technological breakthroughs, a couple of geological surveys, and a working Former unit. The Hive has grown to be the largest base of humans on this planet and there are plans in the works to establish new bases, including one to secure some alien ruins far to the west. I have communicated with 4 other Unity survivors, each leading their own "faction". There is much caution in our dealings with one another, and I am sure that one day suspicion will turn to aggression. I must be ready for that day.
on each faction except the University.
(bottom right attached screenshot)
