[quote=@caliban22]
Soto improve morale I assume you can train units/upgrade them? (Like militia quality with whatever hunk of rusted metal they can find or make to elite mechanized infantry with high quality gear? 
Also I assume while this rp claims pve it can also be pvp?
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Yes you can upgrade and improve units that survive battles. It will generally be easier to train-up militia into regular troops than to try to improve already-elite units. Combat degredation is also a potential factor when casualties mount, your elite unit won't be so elite when they run out of micromissile ammo and their powered armor breaks down.

For the moment I'm locking it to PvE. You don't have the margin to fight invading pirates and your fellow settlement leaders at the same time, and the extrasolar invaders don't make distinctions between landlubbers.