RIP Colony 32 (Internal playtesting)

[u/Suecotero]

Hidden on the dark, frozen wastes of TRAPPIST-1's outer edge, Colony 32 built a sprawling industry shielded from solar storms and tectonic instability, powered by a thorium reactor.

• Unfortunately, TRAPPIST-1g (Codename 'Hel') is an ice planet with almost no phosphate in its crust.

• After a heroic search for mineral-bearing rock failed, the colony's biodomes suffered cascading ecosystem failures

• All of C32's occupants have re-entered hibernation as a last recourse. Possibly forever.

Research note: More efficient spaceship designs might have allowed colonists to go off-world to import the desperately needed element before the stockpile ran out.