Nordland – the name you gave to this world would be Nordland; it will be a start for now. The ship crawled to a stop over a lake, from where on out the first shuttles and transports would be deployed onto the surface of the planet; what was there in terms of settlement would quickly grow to inadequate for the sheer mass of people who are to settle down.
In the week that follows, the engineers are busy surveying the planet for any place suitable to build a capital while simultaneously building up some small landing points, outposts and refuelling stations for patrol craft. The army has been offloading its own small garrison, to be augmented with colonial militia and your own regiments, when they are raised of course, which will take some time.
You also are spending a lot more time with the civilian compartments compared to earlier; in fact, you spend the time setting up a settlement commission to help guide the colonists in the right directions.
How should new colonies and settlements be guided?
>Enact a homesteading act, granting land to those willing to settle and develop it, incentivising growth and expansion.
>The Roman model, the creation of planned villages that will slowly assimilate the surrounding countryside
>Carve up the land into large estates to be sold as new 'rittergut', like in the Prussia of old, with the intention that the settlers will act as tenants to the new pseudo Junkers, or gentry.
Aside from colonial policy concerning settlement, you face for the first some encounters with the natives who weren't sent ahead by your government, these people live mostly on the shores, in some of the mountains and on the miserable islands in the seas. They aren't like you; sporting names like Angus and Haakon, they seem to be descendants of Scottish and Norwegian colonists who lived here before the collapse. They have reverted to a pre-industrial 18th-century level of technology, and how you will deal with them is something that remains to be seen.
What's more, where should the capital be built?
>Somewhere along the coastline
>Inland, but not in the mountains or fjords
>Nestle it high and dry, deep in the mountains.
