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Sun Belle
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The ship lands - although it feels more like a crash - on the first planet you encounter, far away from the abnormal heat signature you detected from orbit. You land in an area with sparse vegetation, free-standing seaweed like plants that wave in the wind. Giant flying reptilian creatures twice your size tear through the skies, seeking smaller avian creatures that travel in swarms as prey. On the ground, there isn't much that is feasible for food, with most of the wildlife being smaller insects about the size of a dog and a reptilian megafauna that has just detected about 5 miles to the east, but there is a stream in that direction. Alternatively, you're pretty sure you can detect an aquifer below you, but it will take some time to dig.
As soon as you emerge, the ship combines with your queen cup and forms a cradle for the eggs it was carrying, attaching itself to your back so you can carry the future colony with you. You judge that the eggs will hatch in about a day, so you need to find food and water before then.
You have 24 hours until the eggs hatch.
>Scavenge the flora and see if it's edible. (4 hours)
>Try and kill a large flier and see if it's edible. (4 hours, chance of complications that extend it to 8 hours)
>Try and kill a small flier and see if it's edible. (2 hours)
>Head for the stream without alerting the megafauna (5 hours)
>Study the megafauna for weaknesses (2 hours)
>Dig down to the aquifer (4 hours)
>Begin preparing the colony (1 hour, can be repeated multiple times, get a bonus on the first few turns)
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