The Prelude
The OOC
The mission had failed. The mission must continue.
High above the world of Adelia, a constellation of falling stars breaks the stillness of the night sky. Strange creatures and picturesque mountains bear silent vigil as man arrives on the new world, thrusters roaring and vehicles descending on pillars of fire onto the quiet planet. The new colonists have no arrived in the manner which they had planned, an organized taming of the wilderness and creation of a new home for mankind, but they were here nonetheless - and they would have to make the most of it.
Colony pod bay doors open on the shores of alien seas, mycelial forests, gaping chasms, vibrant plains. Their passengers are uncertain, afraid, but ultimately without other options. After the chaos and fire which consumed their mothership, the Harmony, they are splintered into a dozen tribes with different visions for this new world. It shall be shaped by their hands, shaped by their thoughts - but ultimately they will be shaped too by it, and a new result emerge.
To achieve understanding, the reed must bend before the storm. None survive without wounds. None go forward uncompromised.
Adelia Awaits.
Faction Landings
The Adelian Commonwealth: The people of the Adelian Commonwealth set down at the mouth of a large inland bay, in a somewhat barren landscape predominated by mycelial growths the size of trees and large stands of swaying red fungal forests which move independent of the breeze. The region's temperature is mild, and the landscape is mostly flat and coastal, save for a few rolling hills.
30 Followers, 1 Cryopod Frame, Deployable Base Core
Hero of Adelia: +1 Harmony for 3 Years
Cultivar (Stimroot): 2 Fruit production may be exchanged for 1 Stimroot production. If consumed by a Unit, that Unit gains an additional Melee attack for one battle.
Cultivar (Tarsop): Your Exterior Growbeds may exchange their normal output for 3 Energy.
Surveyed Lands:
Mycelial Mangroves, 2 x Fungal Tropic Coast, 3 x Savanna, Warm Beach, Teeming Jungle, Sunlit Hills, Grasslands, Mycelial Vortex, Riverlands, 2 x Temperate Coast
Adelia Research Commission: The Commission has set down within sight of a large range of mountains, nestled in a headlands between the highlands and the sea. The region is temperate and reasonably rugged, with a large amount of nearby vegetation with a pale aqua tint which is striking in contrast to the expectations of the Terran colonists.
10 Followers [Base Core may be erected for 2 Labor]
Hero of Adelia: +1 Harmony for 2 Years
Silver Polymer Sample (Bonus Unlocked With Biomedical Fabrication)
Hardsuit Set: +1 Fruit from a Section working in a Verdant Land
Genetic Sampler (Human Implications)
1 Preserved Food
Surveyed Lands:
Alpine River Gorge, Clouded Frozen Waterfall, Temperate Coast, Forested Hills, Verdant Coast
Boat Burners: Dr. Chao's followers are few as they emerge from their colony pod, but not without their resources. They salvaged what they could from the doomed vessel, and pursue now a new synthesis on this virgin world. Their landing site is a windswept peninsula, troubled by cold storms which roll intermittently down from the ice-caps to the east, but kept temperate enough outside of those times by the moderating influence of the ocean which surrounds them on three sides.
10 Followers, Deployable Base Core, Deployable Renewable Array
Industrial Tools, Hardsuits, Terraformer
5 Preserved Food
Cultivar: Palenectar [Exterior Growbeds which cultivate Palenectar reduce their Resource output by 1, but actively reduce Alien Aggression in the local Region]
Surveyed Lands:
Hills, Steppe, Temperate Coast, Icy Delta, Barren Hills
Eironic Consumer Protectorate: The descent to the warm volcanic island is not rough, but it is a strange fate which faces Tiffany and the few people who have landed near her - her main resource is an impressive luxury colony pod full of people who may or may not sabotaged the entire Harmony mission. The lands on this island are warm and forgiving, a hilly Mediterranean climate.
10 Followers, Cryopod Frame, Deployable Base Core, 5 Habitation Pods
Encrypted Diary (2 Insights to translate)
Technology: Social Quantification (Ramshackle Dwellings cost only 0.5 Harmony per Year)
Surveyed Lands:
Grasslands, Hills, Temperate Coast, Warm Beach, Gravel Beach
Dafnan: The men who followed Joseph to the planet have an abundance of tools, but very few men to wield them. Ah well. Certainly more will be attract to the beacon of liberal thought in due time. This area of wide flatlands near the coast is good for building and shows few signs of alien life - at least, macroscopic, with most of the vegetation being limited to spore clouds and low lichens.
10 Followers, Deployable Base Core
2 Industrial Tools (A Section may use these to contribute 1 Industry to an Edifice. They degrade after two uses.)
Infirmary
Recon Rover: 10 HP, Light Weapons. Explorers (2) - may use Explore actions twice per Year. Evasive.
Food Cache: 5 Food without any expiration
Terraformer: 10 HP, Unarmed. If operated by a Section, may contribute 0.5 Industry to an Edifice which is classed as either Agriculture or Resource every Year. Alternatively, may extract 2 Ore from a Rough Land.
Technology: Social Psych
Surveyed Lands:
Sunlit Hills, Jungle Gorge, Temperate Coast, Scrubland, Salish Coast Delta
The New World Coalition: On the shores of a warm island does the colony pod of the Coalition make planetfall, disgorging Rano and his followers. Here is a biodiverse paradise to be treasured, a land of sparse rolling hills and sparkling blue waters. It must be defended against those who would sully this new chance for mankind.
10 Followers, Deployable Base Core, Deployable Renewable Array, Deployable Infirmary
Industrial Tools, Hardsuits, Engineering Walkers
5 Preserved Food
Cultivar: Blue Milkweed [+1 Research every 5 Years from Exterior Growbeds operated in Miasma]
Surveyed Lands:
Grasslands, Mired Waste, Gravel Beach, Fogged Coast, Tropic Coast
Perseverance: On the shores of a warm verdant bay the people of Perseverance make their new home, not far away from hives of alien life but in possession of wide acreages of rolling plains and warm hills. Vigilance may be needed here against the unknown varieties of creatures in this land, but the potential is limitless.
20 Followers, 2 Cryopod Frames, Deployable Base Core
True Hero of Adelia: +2 Harmony for 7 Years
10 Maimed Followers: Produce -1 Harmony every year, and may not work unless healed via Genetic Healthcare.
Terraformer: 10 HP, Unarmed. If operated by a Section, may contribute 0.5 Industry to an Edifice which is classed as either Agriculture or Resource every Year. Alternatively, may extract 2 Ore from a Rough Land.
Surveyed Lands:
Infested Coast, Black Soil, Xenofungus Plains, Verdant Coast, Grasslands
The Phoenixes: A northern range of hills shields the Phoenixes from the worst of the cold north winds, where she flourishes alongside a warm shallow sea. Here is a land where the failures of the past can be contemplated, and a more resilient future fabricated.
10 Followers [Base Core may be erected for 2 Labor]
True Hero of Adelia: +3 Harmony for 5 Years
Engineer Walkers: When manned by a Section, produces one bonus Resource from a Land and is immune to Alien Attack. If used with an Edifice, reduces Energy required by 1.
Hardsuit Set: +1 Fruit from a Section working in a Verdant Land
8 Preserved Food
Surveyed Lands:
Gravel Beach, Lush Floodplains, Steaming Jungle, Savanna, Forested Hills
The Redeemed Cult: True ideologues, the men and women of the Cult have landed in the south, not far from a range of high mountains. This region is harsh, cool, but in possession of ample fertile land which will sustain the faithful as they claim this new Eden for those who deserve it.
20 Followers, Deployable Base Core
Industrial Tools
5 Preserved Food
Energy Cell [6 Stored Energy]
Surveyed Lands:
Riverlands, Temperate Coast, 2 x Scrubland, Grasslands
Smith's Men: The hardy crew who have followed the head of HR down from orbit despite his altercations with the security personnel have landed in the lee of a great mountain on the southern continent, nestled into a lush region of thick rich green forests with abundant native flora and fauna. The region is cold, but the hardy lifeforms which flourish here do not seem overly interested in the explorers.
10 Followers, Deployable Infirmary [May convert 1 Energy into 2 Harmony], Deployable Renewable Array
Industrial Tools
5 Preserved Food
Simple Cybernetic Implants [If provided to a Section, that Section is removed from work for one Year, but afterwards produces +2 Resources when working at a Land or +1 Output when working at a Facility at the cost of 1 Energy]
Surveyed Lands:
Infested Coast, Scrubland, Hills, Boreal Ridgeline, Alpine Heights
Sons of Hephaestus: In a sheltered bay not far from a large island men underneath the commands of Engineer Zakahrov step from their colony pod, the landscape around them wet with dew and full of the sound of running water. Clouds of miasma drift across the landscape occasionally, true signs of an alien ecosystem. This land will need to be tamed and recovered from the aliens that infest it.
50 Followers, 2 Cryopod Frames, Deployable Base Core, 5 Habitation Pods
Hero of Adelia: +3 Harmony for 3 Years
Industrial Tools
Hardsuits
Terraformer
Engineering Walkers
2 x Recon Rover
Surveyed Lands:
3 x Steppe, Steaming Fogged Hills, 2 x Temperate Coast, Alpine River, Blasted Icehills, Lush Miasmic River Valley, Grasslands, Tundra, Salish Delta, River Valley, Savanna, Forested Hills
Takeda's Faction: At the mouth of a wide bay did the Engineer Takeda fall in his lifepod - along with other survivors of the Harmony disaster. This land stands in the shadow of a great mountain the south and west, and is not far from great plains of fungal growths; there is potential here, but also danger. With their limited resources, it will take all of their collective ingenuity to thrive in these conditions.
10 Followers [Base Core may be erected for 2 Labor]
Hero of Adelia: +2 Harmony for 3 Years
Hardsuits: +1 Fruit from a Section working in a Verdant Land
Engineer Walkers: When manned by a Section, produces one bonus Resource from a Land and is immune to Alien Attack. If used with an Edifice, reduces Energy required by 1.
3 Preserved Food
Surveyed Lands:
Barren Hills, Alpine Heights, Verdant Mycelial Hills, Black Soil, Gravel Beach