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Journal of a Rimworld Colony
By: Brash Date: September 22, 2017, 2:41 pm
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1st of Aprimay, 5500
I sabotaged a large slaver ship and targeted a group of escape
pods, including mine, towards an uncharted rimworld. Some may
argue that it would be better to be a slave than stranded in
such a place, which is why I won’t be telling anyone what I did.
Out of our pods and deep in the mountains everyone is a bit
confused and scared until a few more pods touch ground and open
to reveal food, medicine, and most importantly: weapons. The
selection of weapons came from the slavers’ personal property
storage, so there was everything from a small hammer to charge
rifles, but everyone seemed pretty keen on what to grab.
There is enough food for a month or two and who knows how long
the medicine will last but there’s plenty of it.
I suppose here would be a good place to write what I know about
who I am with, first my pact sisters: Syo and Carri
Syo is a strange girl who finds joy in doing most anything. She
was born in a glass world, which means she’s spent most of her
life underground. She doesn’t talk much but her superior looks
cause people to treat her well.
Carri is strong, supposedly strong enough to replace mining
machinery in some cases, and at only the cost of being fed, she
was happy to do so. She was sold to the slavers once the mining
tycoon she worked for made enough for a mining laser.
As the only teenage girls on the ship at the time, we formed a
pact to protect each other.
Sadowi, he’s a bit of a mystery, but I can tell he was grown in
a vat on a glitter-world. He has no trouble holding the
over-sized axe he picked up from the weapons pod regardless of
his small frame. Even carrying it over his shoulder he is able
to step lightly enough to not scare the squirrels he walks past.
Ironfire, as he likes to be called, I remember the slavers
already had him repairing weapons back on the ship after they
picked him up from a medieval-looking planet. He seems the
readiest to take on the challenge of this new environment, and
probably just as into fire as I am.
Clair and Clarity, these two siblings stick close to one
another.
Clair seemed to me an albino at first but his eyes are white and
he’s okay with the sun. Although Clarity keeps him on task, he
is sometimes distracted by a wall in a mountain we’ve landed
near. I suspect there’s something behind it, and even though he
seems more interested in it than anything. I will make sure
we’re ready before I let him in there.
Clarity is naked… the slavers had a hard time keeping clothing
on her and eventually had to lock a jumpsuit onto her that she
couldn’t remove, I suppose they didn’t want to be perceived as
sex slavers. Now that we’re out she’s cut the jumpsuit off with
a knife. Other than that oddity she seems content to keep things
cozy, she’s even cleaned our temporary sleeping spot under a
natural overpass.
Nivalia has already been picking fruits and herbs which will
help us stay fed while we establish a base here. She extremely
skilled at picking out the good stuff and has already provided
us a list of berries that are okay to eat.
Fox and Ebony have already been on patrol for any aggressive
animals, and they helped us put up a wall and clear out any
nasty creatures still inside. Although Fox seems more
disciplined than Ebony they both look like they can handle
combat quite well.
PLO, another odd name, and one that he has often expressed he
wants to be written in all capital letters. It might be an
acronym for something but nobody has cared enough to ask him.
Taking one of the most powerful weapons from the pod and mining
in a way that leaves nothing but rubble, it seems destruction is
his fancy, which can be quite useful in our situation so long as
he’s given proper direction.
As night falls we have a proper enclosure from wild animals,
some fresh food, and material mined from the mountainsides.
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2nd of Aprimay, 5500
Today day went by quick, after a rough sleep everybody was ready
and willing to set up proper shelter and make beds, the floor is
still just dirt and rock but we can fix that later.
While Clair, Fox, and I started making some of the many large
rocks around here into useful bricks, the others tilled a few
fields that Syo and Nivalia have begun work in.
3rd of Aprimay, 5500
We picked all the plants, cut down all the trees, and shot down
every animal we missed in our new home to make space for base
construction. Our first priority was a forge so that Ironfire
can make us the tools we need to get things done.
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5th of Aprimay, 5500
It should come as no surprise that I won’t be keeping a daily
journal as the general eventfulness of things winds down.
Yesterday was nothing but planning and mining and today we built
a walk-in freezer for all the food we want to keep fresh.
Everybody has been focused on surviving so the severity of being
stranded on a rimworld likely hasn’t set in yet.
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Re: Journal of a Rimworld Colony
By: Brash Date: September 22, 2017, 5:40 pm
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6th of Aprimay, 5500
Clair keeps getting too close to that wall like he’s looking for
a loose brick, I had Carri build a barricade of wooden spikes to
keep him away from it.
We finished building a complete power system for wind and solar
energy to power our fridge and future electronics.
Later in the day we heard some banging on our north wall, Carri
volunteered to investigate the moment that it started. After
only seconds we heard the blood-curdling scream of a man whom
Carri promptly dragged in as his leg had been completely
destroyed. We threw him in the battery room and Nivalia saved
his upper leg to his knee but had to amputate the rest.
Clarity went in shortly after with a peg leg I had crafted and
successfully installed it so when we release him he can get out
of my sight faster.
7th of Aprimay, 5500
Ironfire tried to set the base on fire, seems like he does have
pyromania, just like me. We’ll both have to stay medicated to
avoid destroying everything we’ve been working for.
We released the prisoner, which prompted some conversation about
keeping an eye out for future invasions, we’ll be building a
lookout tower complete with a few bedrooms. It will be built
along the mountain until we can see our entire surroundings,
except to the east, which is nothing but impassable mountains.
Sadowi came back to base with a couple of alpaca following him,
seems like he’s been feeding the wildlife.
8th of Aprimay, 5500
Easily spotting a group of travelers, we confirmed the lookout
tower’s effectiveness.
We built a kitchen just outside the freezer, Clarity is now
spending her time preparing food. Ebony is also cooking
reheatable meals during the night.
Some ‘visitors’ in power armor with high-tech weaponry came by
and implied it would be nice to have some beds to sleep in, we
let them stay in our barrack and slept outside tonight.
9th of Aprimay, 5500
Clarity has been wanting her own room, which is surprising
considering her lack of any need for privacy. So we set out to
work on that.
The visitors hunted a couple of animals for us before they left
as an apology for making us sleep outside.
Some sort of noise started coming from the wall tonight, telling
me to destroy it, resisting it is painful, but opening that wall
could mean death.
12th of Aprimay, 5500
The voices stopped and a heat wave came in, we’ll be spending
the day getting power to every room so everyone can have some
air conditioning.
Fox was on the watch tower when he spotted raiders come in via
drop pods, in the time it took for them to get to us we packed a
bunch of sandbags and laid them waist high along the outside of
our wall. Syo and I took a bullet each, but Sadowi’s alpaca
charged at them, drawing most of the fire.
One of the alpaca, which Nivalia named Elmer, lost a leg. I’ll
consider figuring out some way to replace it, seeing as it will
increase his combat effectiveness.
We took a prisoner from the raiders and put him in the battery
room. He has no major injuries. We can’t feed him and nobody
wants him dead so we’re releasing him the moment he can walk.
Another series of drop pods came down, unfermented alcohol, it
might be what those raiders wanted our base for, this stuff must
be illegal where they came from.
We released the prisoner in the middle of the night and on his
way out he stepped on a deer, which angered it to the point of
taking him down, then going after Fox who was watching him
leave. Fox got a shot in before it reached him but he ended up
having to wrestle it until Carri came out and broke its spine
with a sledgehammer.
13th of Aprimay, 5500
Our power system isn’t enough for all the air conditioners,
we’ll have to spend some time upgrading it.
Just as we finished our upgrades, the temperature dropped
significantly, the heat wave is over. We’ll have to find another
use for all this power.
14th of Aprimay, 5500
Nivalia brought in a massive haul of corn, our freezer is
packed. There’s some space to upgrade the size of it, but I’ll
start looking into methods of more effective storage.
15th of Aprimay, 5500
Ebony spotted a pack of tribal people heading in from the south,
we don’t have anything to hide behind past that wall, we’re
waking the others up and waiting for them to breach it.
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Re: Journal of a Rimworld Colony
By: Brash Date: September 22, 2017, 10:12 pm
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15th of Aprimay, 5500 cont.
Once they breached the door they stood no chance as a hail of
explosive and charge bullets rained down on them. Very quickly
getting an idea of our destructive power the tribals fled. Once
again we took a prisoner, helped him get better and plan to
release him.
1st of Jugust, 5500
Summer is here, our air conditioning is operating fine, so I
don’t see the heat giving us any problems.
The prisoner woke up and tried to break down the door in a
panicked attempt to escape. Clarity tended to his bruised fists
afterwards. We’re giving him some time to breathe before we
release him.
Traders came by, they didn’t have much, but they were willing to
buy all the weaponry past raiders had been leaving in our area.
3rd of Jugust, 5500
We completed the freezer expansion, Clarity’s room, and a small
medical room. As well as a small series of bedrooms to
completely empty the barracks, now we can put in some
workbenches for a variety of things and prepare to breach the
west wall, where the voices are coming from.
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8th of Jugust, 5500
Another raid, another easy victory, there were more this time
however, and they might be getting bigger. I’m starting to
suspect these aren’t just raids conducted to rob us, but to
destroy us.
I was able to cobble together an improvised turret this time to
help us, I’m hoping to improve on this technology and fully
automate our self-defense, but that’s a long time coming.
This time we took three prisoners, since we couldn’t keep them
all in the battery room we’re letting them use a few of the
leftover barrack beds.
10th of Jugust, 5500
A massive chunk of ship crashed just outside the base, the
plants around it are dieing out at a very rapid pace. If it’s
leaking poison we may have to leave this place.
After a few hours some high-tech traders came by, they told us
the poison would only affect plant life, but if we didn’t
destroy the ship it would kill our crops eventually. They
admitted it would be too risky to attempt and destroy it
themselves, since mechanoids likely stir within.
The voices again… I can’t understand them, are they talking to
the ship that just crashed?
One of the traders heard the voice and tried to break the wall,
good thing the barricade was there.
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12th of Jugust, 5500
We expanded mining operations to gather the steel we’ll need to
set up a defense matrix around the poison ship.
Carri got a little too hasty and got her eye damaged during a
small cave in. Her crushed eye had to be surgically removed.
13th of Jugust, 5500
There’s another large building with the same kind of wall as the
one in our base, if we’re going to stop the voice we may have to
destroy whatever is in this one too.
2nd of Septober, 5500
A flash storm erupted near the second large building, setting it
on fire and ripping it open. Ancient mechanoids stormed from the
structure and blasted their way into our base before we could
react. Though much of our base was destroyed and many shots were
taken, we got out without any permanent damage. In light of
these events, we now know exactly what we've been sleeping next
to.
5th of Septober, 5500
I’ve figured out how to properly disassemble the mechanoids
whose tough metal exteriors could prove useful for building many
things.
6th of Septober, 5500
A hive of giant bugs burrowed up from the ground in Syo’s room,
thankfully she wasn’t there. Carri, Elmer, and Sadowi held the
bugs back whilst Ebony took them out with his shotgun. The area
was cleaned up, and we all agreed to make the insect meat into
kibble for Elmer.
Our turret erroneously targeted a tortoise, whilst this was some
easy meat, I’ll be taking a look at that turret.
7th of Septober, 5500
We had a meeting today, it was short. Basically, we confirmed
that Nivalia will have full authority over the farm, and Clair
will head research efforts. I’ll research my own way regardless.
There was also the matter of the poison ship, but it seems like
it’s still going to be a while before it threatens our crops.
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Re: Journal of a Rimworld Colony
By: Brash Date: September 23, 2017, 7:42 pm
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15th of Septober, 5500
We mined all the materials we need and had begun work on a
defense matrix that would be able to take on both the poison
ship and the possible mechanoids beyond the wall. A tunnel has
been dug out to lead the dormant ones to the same location as
the poison ship.
Today however, a pack of sabretooths nearly destroyed the
incomplete turret system. Sadowi went out and took care of them
by himself, nearly died in the process but it seems like he
lives for that sort of thing. Thankfully the value of their
canine teeth should make up for the material we lost when an
interested trader comes by.
1st of Decembary, 5500
Fox did nothing today, I only write this because it was an odd
occurrence. Everybody takes some time off to play with the
chessboard Clair made or watch the clouds. Today however, Fox
just loitered about, didn’t even take watch.
Today is also the first day of winter, it’s cold enough for some
complaints but the crops are fine and even Clarity isn’t
shivering. We will be setting up some heaters for a comfortable
sleep.
Twenty raiders, the biggest raid by far. Fully armored and seem
to have a medieval level of tech, they’re scouting us. They came
from the west, so it’s too difficult to tell if they will attack
the north or south gate. It’s times like these I wish we had a
way to attack from afar, I may start research into making a
mortar.
A large group of traders came by, if they stick around too long
they might get caught in the raid and consider our area too
dangerous to return to.
I don’t know if it was a misfire or a genius idea, but in our
attempt to keep the raiders away from the traders, we engaged
near the poison ship and PLO made what seemed to be a terrible
shot and hit the ship, angering the mechanoids inside. They
fought the raiders first, whom fled in terror. As the mechanoids
were distracted trying to kill our scattering enemies we shot
them in the back, ending the threat of the poison ship
effortlessly.
5th of Decembary, 5500
We completed our defenses and are ready to breach the wall.
Carri will go in first and make a hole in it, then the
mechanoids will do the rest.
I was wrong, after Carri made the hole she backed off for only a
moment before she was compelled to look back in. It turns out
the voices asking us to break the wall was an S.O.S. from former
space soldiers. They put themselves into cryptosleep until help
arrived, but they got no response from their military. There
were eight, but only two survived the decompression of being
released from cryptosleep so suddenly.
After some medical care and rest one of them decided to join us,
the other wanted to locate any remnants of their lost military
and made her way out to wander the rimworld.
Hiroshi, a former space soldier, it seems his time spent on the
battlefield has given him trouble sleeping and he avoids Clarity
when he can. He’s really into the smokeleaf Nivalia has been
growing, to the point that he’s already knocked himself out once
by the time of my writing this.
There were also bugs, much like the giant ones that attacked us,
in the cryptosleep caskets, Hiroshi explained that they excel at
fighting mechanoids. Sadowi is set on taming them.
7th of Decembary, 5500
Technology for an indoor sunlamp is complete, this thing will
use a lot of power, but if we can create an underground system
of fertilized soil we won’t have to worry about the weather ever
affecting our crops. We’ve started a massive mining operation
for the new farms.
10th of Decembary, 5500
I finally made a working radio that can communicate with trade
ships. We did some trading with it today, but in the middle of
it we got a strange call about a ship that could take us off
this rimworld. Thing is, the coordinates are on the other side
of the planet, it would take two years at best to get there, and
we haven’t even been here one full year.
12th of Decembary, 5500
Another poison ship, it’s just north of the base. We’ll employ
the same strategy, if we get attacked from the north, we’ll
shoot the ship and finish off the survivors.
Hiroshi had some insight on the mechanoids to share with us.
They are targeting this rimworld to clear it of life and mine
its resources in order to expand their army. It makes sense,
we’ve come across many minerals in our mining operations without
using any method to seek them out, this planet must be packed
full of stuff those mechanoids could use.
14th of Decembary, 5500
A series of drop pods landed nearby, oddly there was nothing in
them, at least we can scrap them for metal.
1st of Aprimay, 5501
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Today marks our first full year here in our new home.
Ebony spotted a large amount of trees falling in the distance.
It seems a large pack of beavers has moved in. The moment Fox
heard the news he ran off to hunt them. Syo, Ebony, and I joined
him, it’d be best to eliminate them if we want to keep building
things with wood as well as fueling Iron’s smithy.
6th of Aprimay, 5501
A much bigger hive of bugs dug their way into the soon-to-be
underground farm. Even I had to help with patching people up
else a lot of people would have died. The hive is still active
but nobody is in good enough condition to get close and destroy
it.
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Re: Journal of a Rimworld Colony
By: Brash Date: September 24, 2017, 1:14 pm
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7th of Aprimay, 5501
Hiroshi cleared out the hives and work has resumed on the farms.
He also apologized about the bugs, apparently they use to be
tame, they were released on the planet to destroy the
mechanoids. He speculates he’s been in cryptosleep for hundreds
to thousands of years seeing as the bugs he knew were never
aggressive towards humans.
8th of Aprimay, 5501
A group of raiders were setting up something near our base. I
took some shots at them until they gave that up and chased me to
our defenses. They had schematics for a mortar. We took three
prisoners. One of them is going to stay and help me decipher
these schematics whether he likes it or not.
9th of Aprimay, 5501
A plume of toxic dust has settled over the entire region. Our
plants are okay, and thankfully it doesn’t seem too poisonous.
Clarity and Nivalia have determined that it should be okay to
spend some time outside, and we should build overhangs that go a
few feet out to better keep the dust outside.
10th of Aprimay, 5501
We’ve decided to hunt all the animals in the area before this
dust kills all the available meat. Our hunters will attend
regular check-ups to make sure they aren’t breathing in too much
of it.
11th of Aprimay, 5501
The plants might be okay but Nivalia isn’t. She can’t work the
farms all day with this dust. We’re hastening the construction
of the indoor farms so she can work safe.
13th of Aprimay, 5501
Most of the animals outside have died, we’re scavenging what we
can before there’s no more meat in the area.
Takashi, the prisoner we kept has decided to join us upon seeing
my research into bionics. He wants me to make him into a cyborg.
He was grown in a vat as a soldier just like Sadowi. However, he
was abandoned and left to fully mature in his vat unsupervised.
He survived and was picked up by the pirates he attacked us
with. He wants nothing more than to be more powerful than what
even his superior vatgrown-flesh can handle.
14th of Aprimay, 5501
Ironfire, Sadowi, Ebony, Clarity, and Hiroshi have caught some
sort of disease. It could be from the toxic air, but everyone
else seems okay, even Nivalia who has spent the most time in it.
15th of Aprimay, 5501
Nivalia stayed up overnight taking care of the sick. Sadowi is
in the worst condition as he refused to stay still much of the
time, his terrible condition has kept him from getting far
though.
Another mechanoid ship right near the other, but the moment this
one landed the voices started up again. These voices want me to
attack the others, I won’t listen, but I’m not sure about
everybody else. We should plan to destroy this ship quickly.
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1st of Jugust, 5501
Takashi helped me build an EMP mortar and with the mechanoids
unable to function properly under its barrage they were easy
prey.
Carri punched Fox in the jaw after he insulted her today.
Everyone has recovered from the disease that spread.
2nd of Jugust, 5501
The toxic dust is gone, Nivalia has decided to continue to use
the indoor farms for our food and grow food for Sadowi’s boars
outside.
6th of Jugust, 5501
Toni, a wanted criminal, escaped a prison ship via an escape pod
and landed near our base. We let her join us under the condition
that we won’t hesitate to give her up if she’s found here. She’s
offered to be at the front line of combat and says she will
patch herself up when she gets hurt.
9th of Jugust, 5501
We destroyed the poison ship, the animals outside were running
out of food, which meant not many were migrating back into the
area after the toxic dust. The EMP mortar is invaluable in
making destroying these mechanoids an easy time.
With all the mechanoids disassembled I have enough material to
fix everybody up with bionic parts. Most common injury is
scarred eyes, I’m sure everyone will be happy to see clearly
again and even better than before.
12th of Jugust, 5501
Raiders, we met them head on, they had some interesting
technology. A shield bubble surrounded some of them. Our bullets
bounced off for a bit before the shields popped, we destroyed
the ones they were wearing, but maybe I can try to figure out
how to make our own. I’m sure Sadowi and Carri would be much
more effective in combat wearing them.
Drop pods filled with mannequins landed nearby… some sort of
safety test maybe?
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Re: Journal of a Rimworld Colony
By: Brash Date: September 29, 2017, 1:40 pm
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15th of Jugust, 5501
Ebony, Takashi, Syo, Clair, Clarity, and Hiroshi came down with
Malaria. Nivalia and Toni are taking care of them.
6th of Septober, 5501
With nearly a week of peace the colony has decided to elect a
mayor, I encouraged Carri to run against Takashi.
9th of Septober, 5501
Alice, a tribal we took prisoner from a raid yesterday has
decided to join us. She also wants to be turned into a cyborg.
She knows how to operate an ancient hwacha.
12th of Septober, 5501
The Purple Valley Federation, they’re the tribals who’ve been
attacking us. We’ve patched up and released so many of theirs
that they decided not to attack us anymore.
Dino, a tribal from that group is also interested in bionic
upgrades, I guess the tribal environment fosters a desire for
unnaturally high strength.
13th of Septober, 5501
Takashi was elected mayor, oddly enough, nobody likes him. I
suspect everyone just wants somebody to blame for things and
they’d rather not do that to Carri.
15th of Septober, 5501
We’ve begun making our clothing out of hyperweave, slightly
heavier than cloth but highly bullet-resistant.
2nd of Decembary, 5501
Another bug hive in the farms. I may have to figure out some
good indoor defenses. They snuck around and destroyed some
things, but the farm area is a good spot for Sadowi and Carri’s
fighting style.
12th of Decembary, 5501
It’s been a quiet month, I’ve been able to research better power
options to supply the electricity needed for an even larger
underground farm. Using the material from the mechanoids I’ve
just about doubled the output of one of our geothermal
generators. The upgrade is greatly expensive but a month of
mining in peace has brought a hefty supply of material to use.
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3rd of Aprimay, 5502
Brash is dead, this is Syo, I will be writing in this journal
from now on. A pack of giant walrus attacked us. One of them bit
Brash’s head off. It took us all day to kill them, they
destroyed all of our defenses and killed many of our boars.
Brash had promised to construct bionic bodies for a couple of
our new colonists here. Fox, Ironfire, and Clair have been going
over the schematics and will help keep that promise.
4th of Aprimay, 5502
Clair is taking research in a new direction. He wants us to be
safe, starting with making more stable batteries. Brash never
minded them exploding even though it could hurt somebody.
5th of Aprimay, 5502
A dry thunderstorm destroyed our power lines, we’ve decided to
build something more fireproof.
We’ve changed our defenses to something more manual, some
believe that Brash’s obsession with automation was endangering
us.
6th of Aprimay, 5502
PLO and Sadowi fought off a raid by themselves. PLO’s sniping
ability took care of any enemies holding shivs and spades,
whilst Sadowi’s new shield belt allowed him to close in on
enemies with guns without issue.
We captured a prisoner, her name is Ash, we will be releasing
her, because she’s hard to look at.
A few people got sick, it’s nothing we haven’t seen. I’ll take
over cooking while Clarity is busy.
9th of Aprimay, 5502
A psychic ship landed, thankfully a friendly arms caravan was
passing by, they were happy to show off their wares.
10th of Aprimay, 5502
We had to cope with a power outage while we switched from our
normal batteries to the new safe batteries that won’t overload
any power lines.
12th of Aprimay, 5502
A mass of bug nests cropped up in the farms last night, we had
to lock the doors. Currently the plan is to slowly whittle away
at them until we can reach the nests. We have plenty of food to
survive without the farms for a while.
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