Cheers 😀 I'm not sure how long it'll be yet - I was originally thinking of the two initial posts, and then two or three for the colony side of things. But each time I sit down to write, more ideas pop into my head, so I just have to balance up keeping on writing it because it's fun, while not letting it meander so far off course it loses it's way....
!BBH
Still... this could be a pretty good stand alone book of sci-fi thriller horror. I'm thinking Carnivore by Leigh Clark style. You've got plenty people that can be killed off.
Hmmm.... sci-fi slasher genre 😁 So far, I've only killed off a few goats and a town-sized settlement. That means there are a few hundred thousand still to go.....
!BBH
In Carnivore they dug up a frozen T-Rex from Antartica. And woke it up. People were eaten. lol
Yes... you have... Alien Mom and Tots and a whole world to sort out.
There was a part you wrote about a conflict zone, like there is a war between two factions... I'm keen to see how all this plays out.
Ooh, I'll have to watch Carnivore, it's one I haven't seen 😀
The conflict zone bit is because this is set in a distant corner of my main sci-fi setting. Off on the frontiers, the war between the Allied Imperiae and the Confederation (Einheriar, Slavers etc) is still dragging on. It's kind of there in the background, having all kinds of indirect influences on what goes on (for example, why the Empire is so determined to colonise an otherwise awful planet; it's probably got resources needed for the war effort or the potential to eventually start manufacturing). The war also provides a useful source of grizzled veterans and beaten-up ex military vessels......
So is this set in a universe you already created?