15th of Septober, 5500We 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, 5500Fox 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, 5500We 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, 5500Technology 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, 5500I 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, 5500Another 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, 5500A series of drop pods landed nearby, oddly there was nothing in them, at least we can scrap them for metal.
1st of Aprimay, 5501Today 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, 5501A 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.