Colony

A colony is a new planet created by a Gaia Class Colony Ship. Each colony allows a player to establish a new set of mines, buildings, defenses, etc., just like they have on their homeworld. Colonies share crew points and research with their homeworld. A player may have up to 8 colonies in addition to their homeworld.

A new colony has a random number of fields assigned when it is colonized as described below. A user can abandon a planet and then recolonize it to possibly change the number of fields on the colony.

Temperature of a colony has no effect on anything.

Planet Sizes

Planet sizes are first determined using a normal distribution, based on a mean and standard deviation (see table blow) which are both determined by what planet slot is being colonized. If the Gaussian random number generator returns a value outside of 1 standard deviation away from the mean in either direction (which occurs roughly 32% of the time) instead a uniformly distributed random number between 40 and 320 is used. No planet larger than 320 or smaller than 40 may exist.

Planet Slot	Mean Size	Standard Deviation
1	64	16
2	58	15
3	73	14
4	173	65
5	167	72
6	155	73
7	144	29
8	140	27
9	159	30
10	101	22
11	98	18
12	105	22
13	110	50
14	84	42
15	101	48

NOTE: The Gaia Class Colony Ship is automatically destroyed in the process of creating a Colony.