After the go juice, next important research item were prosthetics, because the colony genie needed a new heart.
Psychoid plant was harvested and cotton was planted. Ediots will now need to produce the flak armor, and after that it's time to get the ball rolling and examine that broken monolith.
The genie got his new heart, courtesy of dr. Lurk.
A group of 16 shamblers arrived and started an assault.
This time I just rounded up all the Ediots at the center of the fort and waited for them to come closer
One of the shamblers was incapacitated, but apparently can't be captured, we don't have whatever containment facilities are required yet.
A stray bullet hit an elephant, and the whole herd was now provoked into attacking. Luckily lhey also went for the shamblers.
Soon both groups were handled.
One of the outlander groups asked to parlay, and minty was sent as negotiator.
There will be peace in our time. But the armor and monolith investigation were set back, since sudden cold snap killed all the cotton plants.
Soon after, a monkey manhunter pack arrived. I expected them to be easily handled, and they should have been, but the cold snap also killed of all the food outside of the fort, and a heard of elephants moved in to chomp on the Ediot's rice, and I didn't think provoking them was a good idea.
Of course that a bullet meant for a monkey hit an elephant instead.
Nobody was killed, but Ediots ended up crippled and downed.
And so, Demonic and Minto lost an arm each, Lurk will need a new leg. But surviving elephants still left a bunch of monkeys to take care of, and with wounded people needing treatment to stop them from bleeding out, it was difficult and for a moment it looked that after all the trials they faced, the Ediots will meet their and at the hands of a bunch of monkeys. Fucking unbelievable.
In the end the monkeys were dealt with, Lurk got a new leg, minty and Demonic got a new arm each, and I got a chip on the shoulder for pachyderms.
Year four started
On its first day, third pigskin raid showed up and was wiped out.
After that a first psychic ship crashed nearby,
In the morning minto was sent to test if the LAW can take it out, but it barely scratched it. Don't know what I was expecting, guess it counts as a building, not as an armored target.
But it did provoke its escort into attacking, and minty and Demonic gunned them down and then destroyed the ship.
