Damaged Colonies

Damaged Colonies are colonies that have fallen into disrepair or been abandoned. As the knowledge necessary to build new colonies has been lost, the only way for human civilization to expand to new territories is to find and restore damaged colonies.

Codex
"Houses expend considerable energy simply maintaining the installations in which they reside. Bases have been patched and re-patched for hundreds of years, and rapidly decay without constant attention.

Despite these efforts, there have been colonies that fell on hard times or that were ravaged by constant warfare, and which failed to keep up with the necessary repairs. In rare cases, colonies have been abandoned, their inhabitants forced to flee. The nobility bought their way into other colonies, but many less fortunate died.

While no house or faction has the resources to build an entire colony from scratch, powerful leaders have expanded their territory by eventually repairing and restoring such colonies at great expense."