Death portals and the artificial core were both courtesy of the "secret" category. I love that you roll it last, adds a nice twist.
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I did it rockless, but I love the idea. The creation of the planets bit by bit and analysis of colony viability was a blast to play. The summary from my crew of colony engineers:
Fonda-3 is the worst. It is breathable, but landmass is scant, no native food to be found, and temperature spikes are deadly. A artificial metallic core with no known purpose also leaves us concerned.
Fonda-1 is breathable in a pinch, but we’ll have to subsist on ice bugs and invest in tunnel infrastructure between bases which must be positioned between ridges to protect from intense weather.
Fonda-4 is next best. Breathable atmosphere, but the surface is dangerous (flying beasts, meteors, stray death portals) and an underground base built to be structurally sound will be quite costly.
Fonda-2 is clearly the best choice. Full stop. Requires work with lightning and pest mitigation, but otherwise is a beautiful planet for us. Welcome home, folks.
I made Lick-29, a frog ship, a sloshy but sleek colony vessel hopping its way to Swamp Candidate 462. Many amphibians gave their life so that the future generations could visit Licky, which is now a history museum, and eat Impossible Flies that nobody eats anymore and you only try it here out of nostalgia.
The musical interludes were fantastic. I wound up playing Frogs by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds during the final rest. It was majestic.
I saw your request over at /r/Solo_RolePlaying. Making the document screen-readable sounds like a great idea for a system like this. A Doc version is a bit hard to do because it's all in Homebrewery Markup, but the markup is a text file and in itself might be interpretable by a screen reader. I'll upload it here.