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Pink Shining Lily
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Well, no time to begin like the present. You yawn, stretch out and pop the seal on the laptop. Field-grade laptop, what a wonder. On the outside, it's covered in rubber-like, black antiradar coating. Then there is the case built from a thin layer of composite armor. Capable of operating in vacuum and underwater, it also carries a capability to self-destruct its insides. And it even has a comfortable keyboard.
After inputting your ID number and password, the laptop decrypts orders.
Well, well.
"Lieutenant, your orders are to establish the preliminary underground base and above-ground observation post, and investigate the best ways for integrating the local population into our larger galactic civilization. Should your information and proposal be found acceptable, you will be promoted and put in charge of implementing said proposal. After you report to us about finishing the preliminary underground infrastructure, we will send a junior intelligence specialist, additional supplies, and possibly other personnel. New orders will follow."
Apparently, new orders will come via the same method as the aforementioned spy and equipment, because the equipment list in your laptop mentions an FTL transmitter, but it only has radio receivers. Intelligence has nothing about the planet that you can't see on the included map - one big continent, cut by mountains into four parts, with an inland sea right in the middle of the largest portion, and a smaller continent on the opposite side of the planet, without any distinct features.
However, there are huge clusters of unidentified mass in all Lagrange points, and the faint dots of some very hot engines en route to and from the local gas giant. To the south, on the same moon as you, is a relatively small fortification of some sort, which seems to be inhabited. There is also a huge deposit of polymetallic ore right under your location.
Nothing more can be expected from brief, long-range probing and ship's scans while you was deposited on the moon. No language files, too, so you should decrypt language yourself. You don your helmet and set your foot outside.
The airlock cycles and you are now outside the only available island of heat and air in two hundred kilometers. There is nothing before you, except landscape and a view of the planet. Behind you, on the other hand, is your tent. And a rather large pile of equipment, covered under one big sheet of masking plastic - antiradar, heat conductor and emblazened with an image of local surface. Inventory list in your laptop indicates that there is ten minions inside, five quite outdated recon hovers, some mining equipment and furniture for a small listening post.
What do?
Autoget if we start building (elaborate underground) base:
Cargo lift (500 ton)
Hangar, capacity medium(10)
Select order of expansion:
[]Armory
[]Command and Control
[]Generator room
[]Intelligence HQ (personnel expected)
[]Lab (no equipment available)(no personnel available)
[]Living area
[]Manufacturing (no equipment available)
[]Minion service alcove
[]Storage room
[]Other (specify)
Also, what should we do with excavated stone?
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