Discandied

This was a 1.3 base, which is unfortunate because biotech would have been perfect for it, being transhumanist. I only recruited thick-set pawns for ideological reasons, but this would have worked better with gene-modding. The render was taken near the end of the 15 days of end-game raids, as you can probably tell. It saddened the colonists that some many raiders fell in battle and could not be saved by being consumed and thereby incorporated into the colony.

My big regret in terms of base design is not lining up the bioregeneration chamber with the rest of the base. I prioritised having it under the mountain, but it would have been better if it was in-line.

To explain more about the ideoligion, the colonists ate non-thick-set pawns, turning them into nutrient paste, to absorb them and allow them to “become part of something greater than themselves”. The colonists are all thick-set because of how much nutrient paste they consume, and view this as them perfecting themselves, as well as helping those they eat, who surely have been miserable being so weak and scrawny. Similarly they are massively cyborged transhumunists. They believe in living in harmony with nature, and see their perfecting themselves in this way as working towards this. They view their beliefs as entirely altruistic and ethical, despite other people being horrified by all the cannibalism.

We had to plant and transplant a lot of trees to make the base look so bosky, being in the tundra.

The arctic wolves in the fridge were very much alive, by the way. I think I had zoned them there to keep them safe from the mechs, and they are currently sleeping.

The bunch of grapes in the top left is the hedonist style from vanilla expanded. That also explains the final ritual at the bottom.

No, they go out through the animal flap on the left to graze in the swamp.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yvOaYdva33kFTBsmR1y3cgXKCtItSJSD/view?usp=drivesdk

Bonus render of the nunnery half a quadrum on, just before launching the ship. Mother Maryna and Abbess Richeliu are flying to paradise, after The Holy Virgin Mary visited Mother Maryna in her dreams again and told her that’s what we should do.

The journey will be dangerous, so they are going alone, but will send for the rest of us when they get there. They are taking our gold and silver in case they need to pay for repairs along the way.

Mary told Mother Maryna that they are sure to succeed, so long as all of us nuns truly love her and have repented sincerely for our sins. We surely have, so soon be seeing them again in paradise!

Edit: Added the render directly as a separate comment.

Something like that.

True Meaning of Christmas ideology:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xQBU9gONyeBxVJ1P1MWZ4oBHNUFsTMPa/view?usp=sharing

My wholesome, Christmas-themed colony. Santa’s sleigh crash-landed in this polluted jungle, so he set about capturing elves and carving out his grotto here, so that he could make presents (flake) for the children.

I think this base works best looking at the details up close, being so crammed together and chaotic. It didn’t really come together as a harmonious whole looking at the whole render at once. Definitely one of the most fun runs I have done though.

I have a couple of other old renders of previous colonies which are no longer properly viewable on reddit, so may upload them too over the next few days. This was a 1.4 colony.

Presbyteriabaconism ideoligion: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vIIa5sGK7M26xhV5JROskH7i_9gzQoSQ/view?usp=sharing

Changed access settings, guess repeating the link was not necessary, but either way you should be able to see it now.

Sorry, try this:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UyrOm7Ewp-Tkj7WUmgHIINuISM2vwi2i/view?usp=sharing