We don't have any big population modifiers behind our fast population growth - which means we're great at absorbing losses but not so much at expanding our population count to huge numbers and getting hordes of scientists and so on - meaning the university is less useful than the planet labs and the ship labs...and the latter is more powerful than either because of its accuracy and sensor bonuses, which could come in handy later on for the construction of supporting warships.

Dib's on the next planet name :p

Astrometrics Lab seems the most fun imo.

Astrometric Labs it is!



Now that we've made our decisions, let's see how they play out.

[two turns later]




Our fleets have arrived at Joramy and Drields!
A mysterious reading has also been caught on one of our ship's sensors, it could be anything, really.

Here are the reports on the two scouted systems:



Oh my. Well, here's a report from the exploration frigate on the rimward red star, Drields.



The exploration frigate might be right, or maybe we can figure something else out. Just to make things more clear, here's the lowdown on that planet he mentioned.




Do we want to redirect our ships to scout different systems, or leave them there? For example, the colony ship could go explore the coreward yellow star, but if some kind of space monster or pirate intercepted it, it'd be done for. The exploration frigate could also check out that anomaly, but it could be a waste of time. We might just want to send it to the nearby blue star, or somewhere else entirely, or just escort the colony ship.

Our new scout will also be done next turn. We should figure out where we want to send it, it could help us scout out all the locations we need.

And do we want to colonize any of the currently available planets?

Let's grab the tundra world for the time being, but queue construction of another colony ship for Drields, we could do with that diamondite.

Send a scout to the anomaly, and the other to the coreward yellow.