| Decision | Existing effect | Limit |

| --- | --- | --- |

| Hold one dock dry | Exclusive standing choice changes the usable approach and water conditions | Switching costs salvage |

| Repair workshop | Choose one starting module for later expeditions | One additive unlock |

| Repair forecast relay | See the first intake before leaving | One additive information unlock |

Map, notes, observed rules and recipes persist. Banked salvage, the selected dock and colony repairs persist. Enemies, found expedition modules, carried cargo, charge, field state and panel state reset. The current rescue/failure rules preserve previously banked progress and knowledge while losing current expedition cargo and finds.

There is no mandatory upkeep or off-session decay in the drafting baseline. This protects an investigative expedition that brings home knowledge rather than cargo. It does not prevent substantial colony management from being designed.

Define a colony loop that matters through the larger campaign: what expeditions bring home, who or what uses it, what the player chooses between, and how that choice changes a later route, expedition preparation, discovery or build. Supply three materially different development strategies and concrete early/middle/late choices, including their costs and recoverability.

Avoid three automatic upgrades stretched across eight districts, repeated resource payments used to inflate hours, or an unrelated management game. People and facilities can be proposed where they create a useful decision, but their behavior and asset burden must be explicit. Preserve the no-mandatory-upkeep baseline while making a positive case for deeper management; propose any change to that baseline with its effect on exploratory failures.

Coordinate travel/outpost functions with Campaign, unlocks with Equipment, and persistent mystery consequences with World. Lead reconciles the overall economy. No production assets, colony simulation or playtests are authorized.