Season 1 Part 16

**RimWorld: Season 1 (PART 16)** was streamed on April 17, 2020 and uploaded on April 18, 2020.

## Events

A psychic ship crashes northeast of the base, flanked by dormant mechanoids. Several mortars fired to deal with the ship. After heavy fire, many of the mechanoids are injured but the actual ship remains mostly unharmed. Speedy takes Old's place as head janitor due to him being suspended in cryptosleep. Diack goes on an insulting spree and has a brief social fight with Linda, likely due to a psychic drone and an aching scar.

One last mortar hits the ship and destroys it causing the mechanoids to charge the base. A few colonists prepare to defend the chokehold, but the turrets are able to dispatch two lancers relatively easily. A stray turret bullet strikes a Thrumbo, causing it to become enraged. In the crossfire, it's shot down by both turrets and a pikeman but later recovers and attempts to walk away before being shot dead by Flowers. After a slow fight, the rest of the mechanoids are destroyed and the second Thrumbo leaves the region.

Another small group of mechanoids attacks, this time dropping on top of the base. Flowers and Borglar are injured but not severely. Linda and the two are able to dispatch the mechanoids quickly. A wild alpaca is self-tamed and named MorePaca. Vinny agrees with chat that its time to get off the planet and reminisces on when food was their biggest concern. Diack struggles with what to research since most important things have already been researched thoroughly.

An infestation arises from a deep drill and megaspiders chase Otter to the base. Flowers attempts to cover Otter's escape but is unable to close the distance before Otter is incapacitated. Flowers books it for the chokehold where Dreeb, Key, and the turrets wait to back her up. Flowers is then downed in the entrance. The bugs are slain and both Otter and Flowers recover with no permanent injuries. Carpets are laid and statues are built in the dining room and a few bedrooms to improve the comfort of the base. Dreeb equips his own personal minigun. A male psychic soothe then washes over the colony.

The colony constructs the first piece of the escape ship, a structural beam, and then builds the ship computer core. Vinny decides that they have too many colonists and need to stop recruiting people so they can have enough supplies to construct the ship. Vinny says he intends to have everyone escape the planet but "he'll see". Miku implants a bionic leg onto Diack's scarred leg. Squirt 3's eggs hatch, birthing Squirtlet and Squirtling but they are sold to a passing ship. A moderate female psychic drone sets in. Diack and Miku break up because of a previous failed proposal. About half of the colony comes down with sensory mechanites and plague. A squirrel self-tames but is immediately killed by a lynx. A brief cold snap freezes the land, killing crops earlier than usual so several colonists go out and hunt a variety of animals for the winter.

A few horses go mad and attack Flowers while shes out. They knock her down and several colonists come to her rescue. They line up near the exterior wall and one person opens the door which prompts the autoturret to fire when it sees the horses. The autoturret fires and kills Speedy instantly. Flowers is rescued and the rest of the horses are killed by Hatsune and Miku. Speedy's death clearly disturbs Vinny. A sarcophagus is built nearby Himbo's. Linda releases Old from cryptosleep now that the colony has better medicine and Speedy has died. A mare self-tames and is named Hortessence. The stream then ends.

## Notable Quotes and Moments

* Chat suggesting using Old as a suicide bomber against the psychic ship
* "Bring Himbo's corpse." "Not a bad idea."
* Chat wanting to see Dreeb use his minigun to hunt
* "We have too many Squirts"
* "Did Ratbor nuke a town?"

## Colony Deaths

* Squirrel 1 (pet)
* Speedy

## Trivia

* First appearance of MorePaca and Hortessence
* Last appearance of Speedy