Colony Expansion

This milestone is about scaling the colony with additional domes, improving logistics, and unlocking advanced technologies.

Tasks

1. Build Additional Domes

   • Purpose: Increase living space and create specialized zones (research-focused dome, farming dome, etc.).
   • Requirements: Sufficient resources (concrete, metals, polymers) and stable power, water, and oxygen supply.
   • Contribution: Allows you to separate colonist specialties for maximum efficiency (e.g., scientists in a research dome).

2. Expand Power and Water Infrastructure

   • Purpose: Handle the higher demand from multiple domes and larger populations.
   • Requirements: More solar panels or wind turbines, additional water extractors or vaporators, robust power grids/pipes.
   • Contribution: Prevents shortages that can cripple a growing colony.

3. Research Advanced Tech

   • Purpose: Unlock better buildings, more efficient production methods, and new capabilities.
   • Requirements: Research labs staffed with scientists, anomaly scans for breakthroughs.
   • Contribution: Drives the colony’s progress, enabling everything from better drones to superior life support systems.

4. Boost Logistics with Shuttles and Drones

   • Purpose: Automate resource transportation, especially across greater distances.
   • Requirements: Shuttle hubs (and fuel), additional drone hubs.
   • Contribution: Ensures resources get where they’re needed, freeing you to develop distant resource deposits.

5. Increase Population

   • Purpose: Grow the workforce to staff factories, labs, and service buildings.
   • Requirements: Enough housing, food production, and medical services to accommodate new arrivals.
   • Contribution: More colonists = higher production and research rates, accelerating further expansion.

How This Milestone Contributes to the Overall Project

• Scalability: Moves you from a small outpost to a thriving colony capable of tackling bigger projects (like terraforming).
• Efficiency: Specialized domes and advanced tech streamline production and research, paving the way for large-scale endeavors.