Special projects & the orbital view
A newly built spaceport blasting off.Once you get your base’s foundation established on Mars, your first order of business will be to begin interplanetary travel by building a spaceport! Once your spaceport is complete, you’ll no longer be restricted to building on the Martian ground… you’ll unlock the Orbital View! This view will allow AMI to undertake special space projects - the first special project begins the migration process and concludes with welcoming your first colonists. As your colony grows and your research uncovers new discoveries, new special projects will become available!
A few of the different projects in the orbital view!Your number of operational spaceports determines how many projects you can work on at once. Some projects are ongoing -- for example, if you have the space for them, you can continue to welcome new colonists to Mars indefinitely by continuing the migration project. Other projects are limited to a single time such as repairing a damaged satellite... or crashing Deimos into Mars. Some things you can only do once; there's only one Deimos after all!
Building a new foothold by launching an additional landing site.When you begin the game, you’ll have a single landing site and a small amount of materials to get your base started. You’ll begin in the Syrtis Major Planum and be restricted to Sector 4. But from humble beginnings come great things: eventually your colony will stretch across the entire planet and become a true ecumenopolis. In order to grow your colony, you’ll use special projects to expand AMI’s operational reach. By launching satellites, new sectors are unlocked and available for AMI to explore and build into. You can slowly snake along the planet and expand your colony into these new sectors… or you can launch a new foothold entirely by building an additional landing site!
Melting the poles to create an ocean... with nukes!While these are the basic special projects, eventually you’ll be able to implement bleeding edge scientific advancements. Remember that your main directive is to terraform Mars; to transform it into a verdant paradise deserving of humanity’s second home. In order to accomplish that unbelievable feat, you may be tempted to resort to extreme measures that have never been seriously attempted before: like nuking the poles to create oceans, crashing Deimos into the surface of Mars, or building an orbital mirror array via a space elevator. You can also try less extreme options such as importing excess greenhouse gases from Earth or building a fleet of cargo ships to bring your colony ice from Europa or nitrogen from Titan.
[h2]Reddit AMA & Campaign Streams[/h2]
Next Monday we'll be hosting an AMA on Reddit's /r/pcgaming subreddit! Join us November 23rd at 12pm ET to ask any and everything you've wanted to know about the game and to learn more before the big day!
We've begun sending out keys to our favorite streamers. They'll be exploring Mars and showing off the first five hours of our campaign mode! Here's a couple of the ones we've enjoyed so far:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/803050/Per_Aspera/