IXION Lets Play - Opening Fifth Sector - Exploring the Etemenanki (South) - Theta Crucis - EP22

IXION Chapter 3 Part 5. I open sector four, and prepare this to be the replacement food district. I also investigate the Depressurized R&D District, the Medical District Wreckage and parts of the Habitation Sector Wreckage. While I'm doing that, I send out probes, and use my second science ship to gather science at other points of interest, and continue the research efforts on the Tiqqun.
Also I am definitely not convinced that the UN actually are good guys. To put it mildly. The stuff we discover in the various wreckage parts of the Etemenaki are quite, quite disturbing!
IXION is finally here, and I am more than a little bit in love with this game. Describing the game genre is a bit difficult, since it combines so much from so many games - but one quick summary would be that this is a Sci-Fi Space game similar to Frostpunk, but with a lot of aspects leaning on logistics, grid city builder games, factory and production games, and so much more. The storyline is simply awe-inspiring, and the soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks I have heard in a game.
I hope you will enjoy the series as we explore the story of the Tiqqun, as I try to guide it through space with presumably the last remnants of humanity, in the hopes of finding a colonisable exo-planet that we can colonise.
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About the Game
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IXION combines city building, survival elements and exploration, into a thrilling space opera as you explore the stars. Propelled onwards through a perilous journey, you are the Administrator of the Tiqqun space station, charged with finding a new home for humanity.
Keeping the station sound and flying will require a deft hand and strategic thinking, as you are constantly pulled between maintaining hull integrity, bringing in new resources and managing power consumption.
What choices will you make when confronted with impending disaster? What will you discover out there in the dark?
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Outro Music: Big Giant Circles - The Echo
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[@Jules_Diplopia]

Thanks for continuing with the story.

[@uther10]

Great series and layouts

[@PapaFlippinSmurf]

As always a pleasure to watch. Good to see you put the effort in to "test" layouts. It truly makes planning easier. Also gives me the sense that "administrator" has use computer modeling to put together an effective setup. Your sectors looks so much cleaner than anyone else's I've been watching. Here's hoping for the best results. Cheers! 😃

[@Caledorn]

Thank you very much! 😀

[@grahamwalls2051]

One value for a population rank 2 sector would be 46 Domotic housing, 4 Cell housing, 3 Mess halls and a Lunarclism memorial lol. The Domotics, Cells and Mess halls are pretty interchangeable depending on your mess hall levels/ wall space etc. I did mess around with a pop2 food1 sector to see if the extra 30% waste would work but sadly it did not :( ps. no train in the new sector yet so transfer was slow I did exactly the same thing lol

[@FreakyFerret]

For trying to reach Population specialization tier 2, there is a DLS research option to show how far you are to tier 2. Don't forget to build the train in sector 4. That's why people took so long getting there. You forgot to give the Pelican tasks when you accidentally undocked it.

[@TeutonicGuardian]

The Orne-8 thing, where you were could choose if you wanted to get the tech or not was the Event that popped up in your Tech Lab when you first got done with Orne-8. It's a mandatory event that fired once the Icon over your Tech Lab timed out. It's supposed to be the actual Unlock for the Upgrade, as you mentioned. The Drone Center seems to only be able to pull resources from other sectors to fill local storages, not deliver resources to stockpiles in other sectors.

[@Caledorn]

Yeah, that made sense to me too. I almost feel dirty for using UN technology after seeing what has been going on on the Etemenanki... But hey. It's probably one of the best upgrades in the game...

[@TeutonicGuardian]

@@Caledorn In case you missed the comment on your last video, you wanted to research the Self-Cleaning Lubricant Upgrade for the Waste Treatment Center. Saving 5 Power per Center is huge, but it does require the power-saving Upgrades for the Steel Mill I think.

[@nunogaspar7797]

🚀🚀

[@entropino9928]

Weird that we can't get more information on the history and what happened from the people that were unfrozen.

[@Caledorn]

I think we get more story, but gradually, from them. There are events going to trigger from the Etemenanki crew. I'm not sure if they are related to the depth of the story - but there are some hints I think.

[@ebucwalter]

In the 2nd chapter, only a couple of the ppl on the Tiquun 2 (protagoris I forgot) remember earth. And their memories were spotty. I’m not sure how many of the people in the cryopods remember anything but stories. And it’s not like there’s windows, social media, or newspapers. Even on the Tiquun, we have propaganda light or propaganda intense. How much truth is the PA telling them? Tl;dr I don’t think they know

[@alexandereyre8282]

🖖

[@Winde2000]

😊❤😊

[@woggie001]

These aren't the drones you're looking for?😄

[@techno1561]

45:48 They probably disliked DOLOS for blowing up the moon, which you can't really blame them for. The Tiqqun activating its VOHLE engine, and entering self-similar space *did* cause the moon to explode. Although, getting and using the UN cryopods also doesn't seem like the smartest idea. The crew of the Etemenanki were indoctrinated to hate DOLOS, and possibly the Tiqqun specifically (for blowing up the moon and causing a cataclysm). Being woken up on a DOLOS vessel, let alone one they thought caused the entire disaster in the first place, can't be a good idea.

[@Caledorn]

Oh, indeed. And yet, the game *forces* us to do just that, with the mission to awaken 2000 Cryopods, most of which will be from the Etemenanki. Coincidece? I think not. 😉 There will be events...

[@PahlawanMerdeka]

Sooner or later the moon will blow up when someone (anyone) use that particle used to enter self-similar space. Because the research station in the moon reveal there are weird sphere that you encountered in every other system. That sphere is bending time & space and caused abnormality when someone use VOHLE Engine in the system it reside, even though you need that sphere as catalyst to enter self-similar space. So Dolos takes that "travel window" to use VOHLE Engine and enter self-similar space before anyone else, because it's just one time chance.

[@IndyIndie59]

@@PahlawanMerdeka I assumed a multiverse view where the VOHLE engine didn't actually blow up the moon in its universe of origin but translocated it to a universe iteration where it had blown up the moon. That for me would explain, somewhat, the seeming disconnection in timelines.

[@michaelbaumgartel7002]

Please excuse me for not understanding it right away. But why do you want to move the food sector? What's bad about it, what will run better then? And what will you want to do in sector 6 instead? Thanks so much. Perhaps a spectator can explain this to me in simple words.

[@Caledorn]

I want to have food in sector 4, and space in sector 1. Since I have population in sector 3, having food in the opposite sector makes for long travel distances to replenish the food stocks in sector 3 all the way from sector 6. Sector 6 will be the recycling sector, with Tier 2 Recycling Specialization. Also, it's easier to move things from sector-to-sector, than it is to tear down and build new stuff in an already existing sector, due to the building refunding 1:1 in regards to alloys. 😊

[@DenofDragons]

why arnt you using the hydro plants for water? frees up having to collect and ship ice and much smaller footprint?

[@Caledorn]

Because it requires 50 waste per cycle. With the Recycling Plants I have now, I spend about 250 per 10 cycles, so I don't have enough waste generated. Also Ice is so plentiful that I find the hydro plant kind of pointless. At least for now. There are other things I want to focus on instead well before that. 😊

[@DenofDragons]

@@Caledorn i guess i just have an abundence of waste lol.. i have sector 1-5 opened and having just opened 5 im using it as storage and for the fighting pit (which is so damn big)... ive hit the point where even with 3 waste plants i have so much waste its backed up int every location that has storage for it.. probably doing something wrong and will ahve to restart for the 4th time lol but im so far into it now restarting would break my heart.. heres a strange question.. in my farm section i have starvation... with 2 mess halls only like 800ish people and 600+food stored there and the next thing i know i have 400 starving people.. really messed up my whole thing for a bit.. any idea why?

[@FreakyFerret]

@@DenofDragons The patch yesterday had some fixes for starvation. I believe it was to address issues like you're having.