1. Managed to get money for the bribe for Diktat
2. Tri-Tachyon wanted the fun, too, had no money for them. Miraculously managed to fight them off. Dear god, they had phase ships and two herons.
3. Net income for my colony is about -$18000, so I THINK that if I manage to upgrade, then colony might be able to pay for itself.
4. I was considering getting heavy industries, but i will have to wait for a while
5. I have to survive by taking bounties and other missions
6. Money from academy has run out
7. I wonder if getting AI cores will be worth getting in trouble with/paying off Hegemony, I got decent relations with them.
8. There is a planet (200% hazard score) with Widespread Ruins in my system, I heard tech mining is profitable.
Current state of my first colony ever.
Have as little infrastructure on high hazard planets as possible. Colonise low hazard worlds (desert, tundra, the like) and build the infrastructure there, where it's cheaper and it's easier to increase colony size.
I had problem finding low-hazard world with decent resource, originally I wanted to get with decent farmland.
Edit: Holy crap, the colony grew to size 5. Apparently hundreds of thousand people like this hellhole. Hopefully income will rise a bit.