Building Your First Interstellar Colony

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Establishing your first interstellar colony is relatively easy, compared to your first interplanetary colony. But it all depends on the destination solar system and its worlds.

The first interstellar colony is the sign that the empire is truly space flight capable. In most cases also even FTL capable.

This topic assumes you have all basic manufacturing setup in your home system. Capable of producing at least basic spacecraft with gravity drive technology and wormhole FTL drive technology. Read Building Your First Moon Colony if you have not built up your home system to produce these base spacefaring technologies.

Home System Infrastructure

It is critical that your home system has access to eludium. This allows the manufacturing of gravity drive technology, which is not only cheaper to produce but also much easier to operate than conventual rocket drives.

Access to lumenite will allow for wormhole FTL drive technology, which lets spacecraft travel instantly between solar systems. While this makes interstellar travel much much easier and faster, it is actually not a requirement if hour long sublight speed deadheading is considered tolerable.

Spacecraft Blueprint Acquisition

A spacecraft is the ideal way to travel the galaxy. A spacecraft will greatly benefit from having a full crew, a sizable cargo hold, adequate Sensors, and above mentioned drive technologies are recommended for an interstellar voyage.

The designer can be used to create a spacecraft blueprint. But the designer is not easy to use for everyone, so it is possible to aquire spacecraft blueprints designed and published by other players.

Recommended spacecraft blueprint exchange designs:

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Some of these spacecraft blueprints might even be editable if you want to try and modify one later.

Spacecraft Construction

To manufacture a spacecraft the spacecraft blueprint first has to be saved onto a media storage device, such as paper, disk, or thumb drive.

Exploration of New Solar Systems

First step in making an interstellar colony, is of course exploration and locating of suitable worlds to colonize.

There are a few ways to explore new solar systems,