Millennium 2.2, part 1: Moonbase can into space?
0Everyone on Earth is dead. It's up to the 100 people on the moonbase to do... something (it's not even clear what the game's objective is at the start). Just to make things worse, it took about a week for the Mars colony to declare war on us. We should probably do something about that.
The first problem is that you need exotic materials to colonize more planets, and you need to colonize to mine those materials. Grazers - which can retrieve mineable asteroids - are the solution to this problem, and also a supplementary source of othe rminerals.
Probing is a little bit disappointing. Humans are very fussy creatures - we do not like temperatures above 750 Kelvin, crushing pressures, sulphuric acid rain, or radioactive atmospheres. Out of the inner solar system and Jupiter's moons, only Callisto and Leda are suitable for colonization. They are, however, both good coloni sites - Callisto has copper and platinum deposits, which provide a steady source of these minerals that's much less micromanagement-intensive than getting them from the asteroids.
Leda has uranium, which is needed for orbital laser defences.
Saturn and its moons are more hospitable, but they are further away, and travel times are realistic - which means very long.
00:00 Hello Intertubers
01:25 Game starts
04:40 Elon Musk declares war
09:08 Earth
10:40 Mercury
11:09 BOOM!
11:58 Venus
19:50 Elon Musk attacks!
22:10 Asteroid mining
25:20 Jupiter
30:27 Elon Musk strikes again!
33:16 Amalthea
34:50 Io
35:30 Europa
35:43 Ganymede
38:38 Callisto!
40:20 Leda!
41:10 Himalia
42:05 Elon Musk attacks
42:35 Elara
52:29 Saturn!
54:54 Elon Musk attacks
55:33 Enceladus!
57:00 Tethys!
01:00:45 Dione
01:02:40 Elon Musk attacks
01:05:55 Rhea
01:19:20 S.I.O.S. started!