Palatina is pregnant. It feels kind of weird making a non-Kitt colony, with people getting pregnant only once in a while instead of at every possible opportunity. I remember having to rush out of tribal stage specifically so I could research fertility procedures to avoid having a ~10+ people colony at the second year of the game.

In other news, an incredible quest just showed up. Some prisoner fuck nobody cares about musst be kept for 14 days but, most interestingly, a 3x size mech cluster will spawn which, to be fair, is pretty scary, but we also get motherfucking 10 cataphracts to fight them off. Severely tempted to accept this quest for the goodwill alone, as it will push me to the ally threshold with the empire, not to mention the vast resources I'll likely get off the mechs.