Colonies

After claiming a deed on a planet that you have decided to colonise, you may use the blueprints that you acquired from Deep Six for Environmental Domes, Automated Fission Power Plants, as well as the traditional Transport Grids.

Before claiming a deed, ensure that the land under the deed has suitable resource levels, using the show mb.coresample command on various areas. Note that actual deposits of minerals do not correspond to the core sampling probe maps. There is always some overlap. You do not want to invest in a dome on land that lacks development potential.

Upon building the dome you will notice a large structure with a tower in the centre at ground level. Click on the tower to manage the dome's computer. You will see a console. Commands include:

del

Deletes the specified command line. Each line is numbered. Syntax: del 12 (where 12 is the line to be deleted).

polarize

Sets the level of radiation shielding occurring within the roof glazing of your Environmental Dome. This prevents the radiation, where applicable, from cooking your dome's residents.

modgrav

Changes the level of gravity within the dome. Ideally this should be set to the difference between external gravity and 1.

heat

Heats the air/gases within your dome. Can be made conditional. All temperatures are in degrees Kelvin.

cool

Cools the air/gases within your dome. Can be made conditional. All temperatures are in degrees Kelvin.

vent

Separates and expels specified gas (including NH4 and CO2, as well as useful gases such as Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide etc) out of the dome atmosphere. Can be made conditional, so that these gases are only expelled above your preferred upper limit for each gas.

split

Separates out the molecular bonds between various atmospheric gases, to hopefully yield useful gases. For example, you can create a conditional rule to split NH4 into Nitrogen (required for atmosphere) and Hydrogen (which cannot be stored at this time and will need to be vented)

combine

Recombines split gases. For example, if you have H2 from an intake or a split command, and you have O2 from another split command, you can combine the two to make water. Can be made conditional.

intake

Sets the dome controls to retrieve a specific gas from the atmosphere. Can be made conditional.

unload

Allows a player to drop Hydrogen, Oxygen, and any other atmospheric elements, into the dome. Most domes do not use this feature. This is a one-off feature and will not continue to raid your ship's hold for atmospheric gases each time you visit your dome.

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