Eventually I hit a year that was just nonstop bandit raids and mech hives. This one plopped down right next to my base
I had 3 refugees arrive in the middle of all of that and I used them as fodder with EMP grenades to get me thru the 3 mech hives that landed one day after another. They then turned on me, but they were all wounded and couldn't do much
The two dumbasses in the upper left room started a fire and cooked themselves alive because they couldn't get out. The bald chick in the hospital stumbled out and got her head taken off. I was hoping to not do that as she was Svetlana's sister.
Later that year the spear tribe showed up with a siege so I went out to take care of them. They had parked next to the "ancient danger" spot and sure enough someone threw a grenade and it blew a hole in the wall. I ran for it and the mechs tore them apart, and luckily didn't see me. A badass emp charged zeus hammer burned up in the ensuing conflagration.
After surviving countless battles, my best melee died to one of those idiotic roof collapses when I was deconstructing a small building I didn't need anymore:
I had spent a fortune on her. She had a bionic arm and eye. I stuck her in the freezer in case I run across some resurrect stuff.
I'm so tired of the spear tribes throwing endless waves against me that I've been using them to replenish any damaged organs I have:
It has been almost 10 years since I landed. My graveyard is getting quite large:
I had an idea that I might try to travel to the friendly AI that calls early in the game. I've never tried that way of ending it. It is really far though. I had a bunch of horses I was going to use but then a toxic fallout event was going to kill them so I sold them all rather than just see them die. Would take me several years to build more up assuming any come around to tame.
It is about 3 launcher pod distances to get there and I think you can only have one base at once, so I can't really do that. I dunno what I'll do. I'm always short on plasteel, and have had no luck with the mineral scanner. I'm also getting a bit old and have been trying to find some way to fix my frail trait. It really slows me down.