Colony Management

Resources
There are three primary resources: Ore, Energy, and Life-support. There are two types workers: Humans and Robots. There are 7 types of secondary resources, all Research Resources: Astronomy, Chemistry, Electronics, Geology, Biology, Mathematics, and Physics.

Buildings
There are 4 primary buildings: Habitat, Power Plant, Factory, and Research Lab.

There are 3 special buildings:Force Field Generator, Particle Cannon, and Mass Driver.

Only 16 Buildings can be supported in a Colony at any given time.

Colonies
While there are 28 possible Space Station Colony locations and 49 possible Planetary Station Colony locations the player can only have 49 colonies (including Calypso) at a given time due to "lack of colony foundations".

Each colony can only support a maximum of 16 Buildings at any given time.