Ok so is this a mod or just some randoms short story for no reason

guys come get me when this updates

Good on you man. Keep up the good work and never forget about the dream. That's a good way to live.

@Shudderfly It's still in the works, but life has gotten in the way. I'm a microbiologist & civil engineer by day, and impoverished rural communities rely on my team for clean drinking water. It's a rewarding but demanding job, though I hope to find a better work-life balance eventually. When I do, finishing the book is high on my list of unfinished projects, so thank you for the encouragement

Hey, don't give up on that writing idea.

I don't normally EVER comment on mods. BUT this was some good writing. like seriously. you rock.

Amazing story i just hope for 1.4 one day

Sounds exciting! Let us know what its called when its out!

The kind comments have encouraged me to write an anthology of short stories I'm really grateful. Hope you all have a lovely holiday and new year!

REALLY nice read. I love a good short story.

Good read

Oh my, don't let your writer talent go to waste. Get on watpad or any kind of writing platform and get it going! You can't go to waste.

Sick writing!

That's some real nice writing.

If this already has a spaceship in it, consider integrating the Save Our Ship Mod for extra lonely travels to a dead Dyson Sphere. Also, great work on the story! You should write more!

Absolutely love this scenario. The only thing that bothers me is glowpods being uninstalled in the beginning

This is the weirdest and most interesting scenario I've seen, and you don't even need and mods. I'm going to be trying to use the new vanilla factions expanded: insects mod with this. Seems like a perfect fit.

Honestly, not a lot. 1.1 erased more options that it added. Minus the new animals and their meats & furs, changes to the scenario editor have been minimal. Might be more with the dlc, but I'm keeping these vanilla.

Huh, nice. I've been running it just fine before the update, so I've got to ask: What's new?

@Arty Because Steam has a character limit on descriptions. Plus, you'd be surprised how effective intrigue is as a marketing tool.
I updated it to 1.1, especially for you ;]

I've been enjoying this scenario for years, but why there's no plain explanation of what's in it is beyond me.

Characters, Stats, and Research.

https://imgur.com/QWP3qme

Incidents and Restrictions
https://imgur.com/grjSQkB

Conditions, Starting Gear, and Scattered Supplies
https://imgur.com/k9mSxZe

In Summary
You're not going to be able to use any renewable energy, and you'll be fighting a lot of bugs.

I combined this scenario with upgradeInsects, glowstick, and Jelly farm mods. I have no idea if there is a lore behind this scenario, but ya... it's been interesting playing this way. Never thought about using the create incident interval to do something like this.

@Rootner1007 I'd like to publish an anthology of short sci-fi stories, but it's hard to find the time & energy to write while in full-time employment. Maybe one day though.

Damn, wish more people put this much work into their scenarios.

How am I suppose to get electricity? o_O

No please dont you dear
i have been waiting for a rimworld mod so long for this... this makes me cry...

@tarknight save our ship is a mod that does that though

;-; ok

MS Paint I'm afraid

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaait.... is that image of an ship on space a fotoshopi thing? or a feature?

@Fishkeeper
The scenario should say what it gets rid of and what it does when you look at it ingame.

Okay, cool. What kind of scenario? What does it affect?

It's a scenario. No modded content, so no conflicts or bugs.

Fascinating story, but what is this? Is it a scenario? Does it add creatures and/or a new world type?

Cheers! Repurposed from an image of a real life Hall Thruster

Great job then! those Ion Thrusters look Awesome

I use MS Paint for literally everything!

I will Bet you used Green Carpet as a greenscreen and Made the Ship and boom use greenscreen software and you have a immobile ship since you havent colored the moving thrusters

As Elladel suggested, I'd really like to see that put into action. Having them live on the ship with teleporters getting their sustenance with a premade faction that has positive relations from the start being the suppliers.
They can have a workshop bit and be a mercantilist ship, and if they run out of fuel the power goes out, and the oxygen, the engines, meaning they have an alert where they have to refuel before they crash into planets below...
That's a bit complicated.

Thank you for the pleasant read. :)

Wow, that was a greally engrossing description. I actually want to keep reading! Nice story!

well... a guy can dream. :(

Cool concept, but there's no way to implement this in the base game. With little modding experience past visuals, I wouldn't know where to begin.

Do you know if it's possible to add in that spaceship in the images section (without the actual spaceship parts of course)? It would be cool if you could actually have the colonists start off with the ship they came to the rimworld with.
Presumably you could make a worldgen structure that has a 100% chance of appearing on the starting map, but how you could get the game to stop this on other maps (and other scenarios) is beyond me.
Anyway, this is just something i think would be an amazing addition to my favourite scenario! :D

Playing this on a frozen planet, where the megascarabs die because of the cold almost constantly... There's just no mercy for a little fledgling colony when you have five hives on the map :(

scoffee? BODEGA

I'm unclear what the mod does, but I'm certainly going to add it and find out after that. Might even vanilla my list up for it too.

I completely forgot i was reading the backstory of a mod. Amazing story!

Nice story.

Enjoyed the attention to the setting. Presuming that "insect horror" refers to life on the hiveworlds, which they are trying to put behind them.