
Perhaps your two best colonists are happily married - until one of them falls for the dashing surgeon who saved her from a gunshot wound. Each has an opinion of the others, which determines whether they'll become lovers, marry, cheat, or fight. A genetically engineered assassin can do nothing but kill – but he does that very well.Ĭolonists develop - and destroy - relationships. A nerdy scientist is great at research, but cannot do social tasks at all. A farm oaf knows how to grow food by long experience, but cannot do research. A nobleman will be great at social skills (recruiting prisoners, negotiating trade prices), but refuse to do physical work. So your colony will always be a motley crew.Įach person’s background is tracked and affects how they play.

You’ll acquire more colonists by capturing them in combat and turning them to your side, buying them from slave traders, or taking in refugees. You can end up with a nobleman, an accountant, and a housewife. Your colonists are not professional settlers – they’re crash-landed survivors from a passenger liner destroyed in orbit. Randy Random does crazy stuff, Cassandra Classic goes for rising tension, and Phoebe Chillax likes to relax. There are several storytellers to choose from. Every thunderstorm, pirate raid, and traveling salesman is a card dealt into your story by the AI Storyteller. It works by controlling the “random” events that the world throws at you. It’s designed to co-author tragic, twisted, and triumphant stories about imprisoned pirates, desperate colonists, starvation and survival.


