One last wrap-up post for the character intros! Featuring: Ghouls, Mechanoids, Prisoners, Shamblers, and Animals.
These are Subjects I-VIII, named by the ever-creative Raith. They are the colony's ghouls, and do most of the melee-blocking and front-line fighting. Each bears a standardized array of bionics, but they all may look familiar - they were all once Obelisk duplicates of Pork. The first was accidental, many years ago when the Obelisk first landed. Raith, never one to pass up an opportunity, seized his chance to take advantage. Dr. Raith was able to persuade both Porks to allow the duplicate to undergo the ghoul-creation process, "for the good of the colony," taking advantage of the confusing situation and Pork's protectiveness. Not letting up, Raith pressed his advantage and pressured Pork into allowing him to engineer and take seven more duplicates - each becoming a dead eyed, seemingly unintelligent killing machine.
These are a handful of the mechanoids controlled by Val - they slumber, dormant in the fields, and the colony's children spent many a day climbing the enormous boulder-like metal centipedes. They rarely see actual use, since the colony's other defenders are typically more than sufficient to protect it from the average raid, but provide an ironclad safety net for the group to fall back on - no doubt they'll see some action in the chaos of the reactor startup sequence.
This is the prison where the colony sends captured raiders, within the bowels of Raith's lab - his primary goal for them is gene extraction, and he has collected a number of fellow sanguophages of several varieties over the years, who are simply left deathresting.
Another backup defense is the SKELETON PITS! They're two giant piles of large animal corpses kept around deadlife shells to be released in case of emergency. I don't use these much, mainly because of the cleanup and the lag (though I'm curious to see how 1.6's performance improvements impact the viability of this strategy in that regard). The first one is actually in a natural cave that used to be the biggest hole in our defenses, but now is an inescapable skeleton death trap, and the second is just an emergency reserve.
Lastly, a quick overview of the animals! We have an ever-growing population of Thrumbos in the colony after going through the effort to tame a breeding pair.
I also keep a large pen of various animals (just outside the aforementioned caves) for caravans, fabric, and meat, as well as the horse the original three colonists crashlanded with all those years ago.
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