Something New is in the works

**Bwian** · 03-24-2005, 19:50

It's supposed to be quite 'primordial', and that means lots of rock and vulcanism. I will have to see what I can do with this.

**Sundjata Keita** · 03-24-2005, 20:45

Maybee a place like Egypt's Nile delta. Desert but with some spots of lush vegetation. As you said yourself you could add models onto the battlemap. Maybee you could add some big plants or some big rock outcrops.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 03-25-2005, 05:09

The only reason there are so many robots is because there is a lot of work to do preparing the planet for human colonization. There could be somewhat terraformed (greener) areas around the "good" robots and/or an agriculturally-oriented factory. The rest of the landscape could be varying degrees of desert (maybe icy wastes near the poles?).

I would think that the robots would be very utilitarian (is that the right word?) and not very humanoid, at least to start with. In thinking up designs, I think you should keep in mind what the original designers of the robots were thinking. Mining robots won't look much like humans, for instance. As the tech tree advances (robots are designed via factory AI) the robots can take on a more military-oriented design, or something like that.

Leave the humans out, at least for version 1.0. That should be a problem left for an expansion of kinds, I think.

Native fauna? Hmm. Are we assuming that the planet was mostly barren or not? If so, then maybe have like sand worms or something hive-minded. If the planet is not barren, maybe some cool lizards or mammals of large size... like elephants? Personally, I don't like the idea of native creatures... but that's me.

This is so cool.

**JimBob** · 03-25-2005, 06:50

As for humans have a Marius type event where a 'landing beacon' or some such thing is built and the humans land. But because they are colonists they bring little in the way of modern weapons as they believed the robots would have subdued any opposition. And on their arrival they must resort to using what the can for war and devoloping weapons as the robots did. Even have a crash landing where most military equipment is destroyed.

**Sundjata Keita** · 03-25-2005, 09:06

I think the mining and factory working robots should be non-humanoid but some of the later warriors should be humanoid as this will make them look really good.

**Duke John** · 03-25-2005, 11:28

Mars is barren, still it is good planet to start inhabiting. There are ideas of spewing huge quantities of CO2 into the air so an atmosphere is created. The planet could also be used purely for mining operations. We are depleting Earth's resources and with the evergrowing population there will always be the need for metals. Wether it is sensible if the journey takes 200 years is another story. I don't think humankind is picky about barren planets as long as there is a good gravity, temperature and a non-toxic atmosphere.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 03-25-2005, 16:34

For the "Senate" ship AI, the single factory-city should be the actual landed ship.

Maybe name the ship "Manifest Destiny" if you don't mind ship colonization cliches.