Hmm... First of all, I suppose it's entirely possible that the devs might have some hidden plotlines on the planet we're colonising. Alien ruins, rogue factions, a lost and classified '0th expedition'...

Secondly, what sort of tech level are the newly arrived colony pods dealing with? Punch trees to get wood and make a pickaxe, or load carbon-based matter into the nanoconverter and receive graphene tools?

finally... is it possible that an AI might find some cracks to slip through and do a little bit of hacking/glitching? I can think of a few fun things to play out.



The conspiracy mindset of me is also going to be wandering if any other human players are actually AIs... we can recognise our own that we started with, but who's to say this experiment isn't being run on others at the same time?