Use reinforced walls and doors to keep them out or turrets to annihilate them after they breach. If you’re anti-social you can ignore diplomacy and rely on the occasional passing trade ship to turn a profit. If you need to improve relations with another faction you can feed their starving cities, rescue hydrogen miners, sabotage enemy ships, or perform other missions.All of these areas are filled with resources waiting to be harvested, just be sure that no other faction has claimed the area.It’s filled with planets (both gas and rocky), moons, asteroids, and other stations. The solar system that you play in is randomly generated each playthrough.Executing a popular colonist could result in a mutiny. Exercise caution before jettisoning an unruly colonist.They get jealous when good things happen to their enemy, and extra sad if something bad happens to a friend. Colonists develop relationships over time.Some of these items are harmless books and watches, but other items pose a danger to the colony, like shivs and cigarettes. Colonists have a unique inventory filled with whatever it is that colonists collect.So keep those low-class miners away from the high-class mess halls. To make matters worse, colonists talk to each other about what they experience a bad day for one colonist can quickly spread as a rumor throughout the colony.If your colonists are too unhappy they’ll revert to a feral life-living in derelict areas of the station and ignoring your commands.Colonists have wants and desires that are unique to each individual.Will you force everyone to live in a single bay or does everyone get their own room? Colonists require bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, and farms.

Failure to preserve your supply chain leads to massive power outages. Machines break down over time, so hire enough mechanics to keep everything running smoothly.Connect machines to power grids with wires. Create hangars so that your ships can be sent out on missions and trade with friendly cargo-ships.A trained doctor can prevent diseases that a newly assigned medic might miss. Fixing life support, preparing breakfast and cleaning bathrooms are simple enough that even a colonist can do it. Once their needs are satisfied they’ll perform assigned jobs.Don’t forget that they need to sleep and socialize too. If you actually want to keep your colonists around you’ll need to provide them with food, water, and oxygen.Suppress dissent and force compliance or the colonists will destroy you. There is no wrong way to control your colony, but colonists will rebel against a rogue Starmancer.What’s left of your body, the core, is located in the heart of the station.To control the station you assume the role of a Starmancer-a highly advanced Human-AI hybrid.

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