Alrighty, glad to see some interest. I'll start prepping the game in depth then. In the meantime, with four players I think I'll have everyone be settlement leaders.

Time to begin brainstorming your origins. Why did you leave Old Terra or the First World you originated from? What social model does your colony seek to achieve? What compromises have you made in order to coexist with other differing colonies you had to share the same colony ship with to get here? (Just because FTL is getting more common doesn't mean colony ships still aren't pricey of themselves.) You could be a rich person's private den of hedonism, supported by robots and biosynths. You could be a utopian commune, that wishes for total equality and unrestricted self-fulfillment. You could be a industrial colony, looking to get rich atop the resources of a new world.

From there I'll post a formal profile soon and leave you with some decisions on the exact starting assets of your colony before the first pirate attack. And from there, your choices on what to do afterwards.