The 35,000 acres of old growth forest in the Porkies is predominantly eastern hemlock. Therefore, it is the finest ecosystem in the country to find the highly medicinal red reishi mushroom (in this region, ganoderma tsugae), which has been cherished in East Asian medicine as the "mushroom of immortality."
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https://preview.redd.it/e0veyornbt4b1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e7067ee365fd5f0f48f5cc3b5e33962b040e423
Given that mushrooms are bio-accumulators of heavy metals, old-growth forest which has never been mined or used for agriculture is the absolute best source of clean mushrooms. Unfortunately, the purity of the ecosystem is now in jeopardy.
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Copperwood, if it is allowed to pass, will be a copper sulfide mine. Sulfide mining extracts metals from sulfur-bearing ore. Sulfides are a byproduct. When sulfides mix with water and air, they create sulfuric acid–– basically, battery acid. If this acid leaks into groundwater – which it always does – the result is called acid mine drainage. Such a process does not bode well for the health and purity of mushrooms, or of other foraged goods, nor game hunted, and especially not for the fish in the waterways.
The proposed site would extract minerals from directly beneath Park property. It is a stone's throw from the Presque Isle River where many go fishing. It is only a few miles from Lake Superior, which represents 10% of the world's surface fresh water. It is immediately adjacent to the largest old growth forest in the Midwest. The Presque Isle Scenic Area once held an Ojibwe village – French fur traders and Ojibwe natives used to meet on its beaches to conduct their business. Clearly, this is an area of enormous historic, ecological, and recreational value.
Only a few weeks ago, copper was denied status of "critical mineral" by the US Geological survey: https://www.eenews.net/articles/usgs-rejects-push-to-make-copper-a-critical-mineral/
Is it therefore worth risk to endanger both the health of the ecosystem and the health of humans all for the sake of a mineral which has been deemed not to be of urgent importance?
Read the most recent news report:https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/industry-news/mining/copper-fever-on-the-keweenaw-6670430
"In laying out its strategy last week, the Longueuil, Que.company said it will decide by early 2024 whether to greenlight construction of its Copperwood Project, the first and smaller of its two deposits. Site prep work begins this summer."
Read about the project directly on the company website: https://www.highlandcopper.com/copperwood-project
Here is a critical view: www.ProtectThePorkies.com
For those who agree with the critical view and wish to help, the most important step is to sign and share the petition: www.change.org/ProtectThePorkies
If the project will not be greenlit until 2024, there is time to build resistance through public opinion. In the mean time, their "summer site prep" means clearcutting forest.

For the context of why I'm doing this, you can check out this general post. Also, you can check my previous log here.
As I've said my previous post, I just finished all the achievements for this run but I decided to push it a little and fulfill my extra goals for myself:

• Finish all the achievements by Cycle 1000 (done at cycle 938)
• Mixed Industrial Brick (see Figure 8)
• Shine Bug Ranching (done at cycle 1371)
• 50 t Thermium (done at cycle 1112)
• Sour Gas Boiler (check previous log)
• Manage two decent planetoids (Finished 2nd planetoid at cycle 1200)

I just reached cycle 1371, and with my first radiant bug hatching (my ranch is shown in Figure 1) with 38 dupes under my care, I can say that this is a good stopping point for this run. In terms of struggles and issues found from here on then, there isn't much to discuss that is specific for this planetoid. So here's just a list of what I've done and polished before I was able to do call this cluster quits.
Figure 1. Shine Bug Ranch
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Linked Planetoid Base
So right after getting all the achievements, my first mega project is to fix the linked planetoid and permanently assign to duplicants there – one that's for constructions and whatnot while the other is to manage some essentials like food and farming. Figure 2 shows the finals state of that planetoid.
Figure 2. Linked Planetoid Colonization
The reason why I spent about a couple of hundred cycles fixing this place is because this place is the primary source of water for my main base. It has two saltwater geyzers, one cool slush geyzer, and a cool steam vent. I also have my beetas here manufacturing my enriched uranium (I still rely on nuclear energy). For this, it was necessary to have dupes stationed here for sustainability. The following lists the essentials for this base:

1. For my main energy, I switched to natural gas generators teleported from the main asteroid. I gave up on solar energy because of the destructive nature of the comets.
2. I allocated a vent for this base's water supply, because my food relied on bristle/gristle blossoms and plant meat (from saturn critter trap)
3. For this base, I tried constructing modular living complexes for my two duplicants. If you look at the top left of Figure 2, you'll see two buildings that houses one duplicant each. I made sure that the "appartment" has a central corridor that's a nature reserve, whose wild plants are thimble reeds. This will sustain the atmo suit requirement for each complex, as I have my dupes wear them while roaming around the whole planetoid.
4. I'd have saturn critter traps to eat my beetinies. I need the enormous supply of hydrogen for my main base's hydrogen liquidation chamber, and also for some generators.
5. No main rocket silo system, just one landing pad for emergency constructions.

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Bunker Door Ceiling
With the WhattaBlast update, I used this run to test drive the old design I used (from the Jahws guide) before when dealing with comets. So what happens is that I built a ceiling of bunker doors that are just three tiles away from the upper limit of the screen. I just learned that the space scanners are cumulative in the whole clusters, therefore I can stack them up on different planetoids to increase their detection quality. Such is seen in Figure 3. The whole act here is that these doors will be opened, allowing interspace transport while it will close just a few seconds when the comets are coming. When the shower is done, it will open again, dropping the debris. The entombment will be dealt by the robominers. Also, I made a cooling loop for my space buildings using the conduction panel.
Figure 3. Comet Mitigation System.
The result isn't really favorable. Back then during the base game days of ONI, comets only yield regolith and metals that fall when the doors opened. This is different now. There are comets (like oxylites and uranium ores) that kind of become natural tiles upon impact, which will stay from where they currently are, far from the reach of the robominers. I'm going to modify this build in the future. I'm just lucky that my main planetoid only has Ice Comets which proved to be more beneficial to me (passive cooling for my rocket silo).
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2nd Main Base
This project took me about 200-300 cycles setting up everything before I can introduce permanent dupes here (Figure 4). The colonizing team included three rockets: two 3-dupe-manned builders, and a rocket whose sole purpose is to fly back and forth and drop rovers.
Figure 4. Second Planetary Base
While stripmining the whole planetoid, I started out with establishing power. I constructed a Natural Gas Power Plant, with polluted water dump directly below it. I also started consolidating different bodies of water in the area. After that, I started outlining my base (lead suit-centralized) so that I can focus on the area of my kitchen. My priority to set up a deep freeze chamber in my kitchen by creating a cooling loop around it. The cooling loop will come from a Steam Generator setup with an Aquatuner (for the whole base cooling), Regulator (hydrogen loop for the deep freeze chamber) and a tepidizer to balance of with the cooling (since this is a frozen forest planetoid). After the kitchen, I started constructing a half-starvation ranch for pacus, as this will be my major source of food. For the water, I set up my bathroom loop paired with a sieving system all throughout the base. This planetoid is very favorable as I was given with a cool slush geyzer. Also, I didn't really need a lot of water since I'm going pescatarian.
Moreover, the reason why I chose this planetoid was because all story traits are here and I was able to complete them too Figure 5. However, since I'm very near to the end of my run, I wasn't able to make much use of them. Although the Somnium Synthesizer was actived a couple of times, the ancient specimen wasn't really of much use to me because my lime source comes from the eggs of hatched pacus. The critter trap didn't really provide much help with the morphing and the big shipper container was just a decoration (although Jorge the Hermit became a permanent resident in this base).
Figure 5. Trophies for Story Traits
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Shine Bug Morphing
This was the last goal that I ever accomplished for this run and it felt the longest because waiting for the bugs to morph without anything else to do (by then I got lazy to do any other thing since the fps is dropping significantly). My proposed structure here was an octagon-shaped complex (as shown in Figure 6 with a planner mod) where it will be divided into 8 rooms for each of the morphs (as aided with colors). Take note that the top right room will just not be for the base morph, but as an evolution room for the shine bugs. The rest of the rooms were built to preserve the morphs evolution (like feeding coral bugs with pepper bread and phosphorite to reinforce hatching of other coral bugs).
Figure 6. Initial Shine Bug Morphing Ranch
Here's what it looks like now (Figure 7), 1190 rads/cycle. I had fun with the morphing aspect of the game but since I did it towards the end of my run, it felt so much anticlimactic, waiting for the morphs to appear while I have nothing else desirable to do. Might consider this in my future runs but might do it on an earlier point in time.
Figure 7. Full Spectrum Shine Bug Ranch
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Mixed Industrial Sauna
Shown in Figure 8, I have successfully created my industrial sauna and slickster ranch. The whole complex was able to run consistently for a very long time with minimal issues and I was able to productively fix the priorities so that my dupes can automatically produce materials whenever I want them to. It was at this time that I was able to produce thermium and maintain them at 50 t, where my tungsten source came from my rocket drilling missions.
Figure 8. CO2 + Steam Industrial Sauna
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So with this, I can say that I was able to do everything in my goal (most especially the sour gas boiler). If you've reached the end of this post, thanks as always for reading! Next up would be an interesting challenge for me as I will change my early game strategies due to different raw materials present. I'll be taking on the metallic swamp cluster. Anyway, cheers!

The 35,000 acres of old growth forest in the Porkies is predominantly eastern hemlock. Therefore, it is the finest ecosystem in the country to find the highly medicinal red reishi mushroom (in this region, ganoderma tsugae), which has been cherished in East Asian medicine as the "mushroom of immortality."
​
https://preview.redd.it/hu8umjnvat4b1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=642f8398bc0d3edeeb4f4e7b65e5cb626eb7e1bc
Given that mushrooms are bio-accumulators of heavy metals, old-growth forest which has never been mined or used for agriculture is the absolute best source of clean mushrooms. Unfortunately, the purity of the ecosystem is now in jeopardy.
https://preview.redd.it/11dwhnb5at4b1.png?width=1167&format=png&auto=webp&s=36872eae3fed8a5fdaba653c1802ea31ebe2a27b
Copperwood, if it is allowed to pass, will be a copper sulfide mine. Sulfide mining extracts metals from sulfur-bearing ore. Sulfides are a byproduct. When sulfides mix with water and air, they create sulfuric acid–– basically, battery acid. If this acid leaks into groundwater – which it always does – the result is called acid mine drainage. Such a process does not bode well for the health and purity of mushrooms, or of other foraged goods, nor game hunted, and especially not for the fish in the waterways.
The proposed site would extract minerals from directly beneath Park property. It is a stone's throw from the Presque Isle River where many go fishing. It is only a few miles from Lake Superior, which represents 10% of the world's surface fresh water. It is immediately adjacent to the largest old growth forest in the Midwest. The Presque Isle Scenic Area once held an Ojibwe village – French fur traders and Ojibwe natives used to meet on its beaches to conduct their business. Clearly, this is an area of enormous historic, ecological, and recreational value.
Only a few weeks ago, copper was denied status of "critical mineral" by the US Geological survey: https://www.eenews.net/articles/usgs-rejects-push-to-make-copper-a-critical-mineral/
Is it therefore worth risk to endanger both the health of the ecosystem and the health of humans all for the sake of a mineral which has been deemed not to be of urgent importance?
Read the most recent news report:https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/industry-news/mining/copper-fever-on-the-keweenaw-6670430
"In laying out its strategy last week, the Longueuil, Que.company said it will decide by early 2024 whether to greenlight construction of its Copperwood Project, the first and smaller of its two deposits. Site prep work begins this summer."
Read about the project directly on the company website: https://www.highlandcopper.com/copperwood-project
Here is a critical view: www.ProtectThePorkies.com
For those who agree with the critical view and wish to help, the most important step is to sign and share the petition: www.change.org/ProtectThePorkies
If the project will not be greenlit until 2024, there is time to build resistance through public opinion. In the mean time, their "summer site prep" means clearcutting forest.

Hello all, we are the 777th Siege Korps of Krieg, a new Death Korps of Krieg unit! We formed this place after being unable to find a unit we really vibed with for quite a while so instead of continuing the search we decided to found our own unit. Our hope is to be a relatively serious unit with a few jokes here and there allowed, this doesn't mean "yes sir no sir" Though it does mean that we are going to be a tad stricter about things. To explain in straight terms, We are fine with you making jokes with your friends here though don't go overboard and ruin other people's fun.

Our Schedule: Our operations are currently set every Saturday at 2pm EST (7pm GMT) so that our friends across the pond have a chance at joining. We also hold side operations throughout the rest of the week as well. Our hopes are that as we grow we can find other individuals interested in zeusing so that not only our main zeus can play an op once and a while but also so that we could possibly hold multiple main ops a week.
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When Joining: When you join the unit basically you just need to say in the channel you can type in if you are a unit rep or wanting to join, At that point you will have a few questions sent to you that are just basics for you to answer, Here they are so you can answer them when you first join if you wish.
Where did you hear about us?
What is your age?
Are you new to Arma?
Do you need help with TFAR
Can you make our operations at 2pm EST on Saturdays?
Do you have any questions?
MOS We offer:
Rifleman
Marksmen
Anti-Tank
Quartermaster (medic)
Melta Gunner
Plasma Gunner
Grenadier
Heavy Gunner
Flame Trooper
Engineer
Death Korp Riders
Grenadier Bodyguards
Squad Leader
Pilot (Planned for the future though it depends entirely on unit growth)
Armor (Planned for the future though it depends entirely on unit growth)
Our Rules: - Discord Rules: -No NSFW/NSFL content

• No politics.
• No discriminatory language of any kind.
• No Advertising of other units.
• Don't be a dick and use common sense
• We require members to be at least 16 to join though we do make exceptions if you seem to be a mature individual.

In-Game Rules:

• No Blue on Blue
• No starting arguments, If you have an issue bring it to your SL or CO.
• Don't modify you're weapons and armor unless you get permission from a SL or CO.
• Follow Orders

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Closing Statement: Just a quick thank you to everyone who read this far down for spending the time to do so and for being interested in the unit, Feel free to message me any questions you may have as I'm more than happy to answer questions about the unit, Have a nice day and hope to see you in Ops! Discord: https://discord.gg/9amxYE5Vbf

Both Patricia and Amanda are following her new mod. You both might want to block her