<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104036.msg4584208#msg4584208">Quote from: The Great Triangle on 02-05-2011, 21:36:11</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Ares is perfectly ready for colonization, yes.  You won't even need permission from the Commodore to do it, though the potential profits from a colony on Ares are pretty low, since the planet doesn't have any natural resources of note and is barely sustainable as far as agriculture goes.<br/><br/>An orbital space colony/trade station would likely be considerably more profitable<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Hmm... well, there is only one group of newly bred, ready to colonize youngsters in the cargo hold atm... might want to wait for a better opportunity to start a colony then a marginal one.   So a planetary colony here does seem to be questionable, however, as for the orbital colony, correct me if I'm wrong, but is it possible that we use our potential colonists to re-man the Attica Station?  Or was I incorrect in assuming that it had been practically de-populated?  Is that what TGT is getting at?