I play this way too. I have my core colonists who were my starting crew and folks who enter relationships with them. If I lose one of my core pawns, I tend aban

I play this way too. I have my core colonists who were my starting crew and folks who enter relationships with them. If I lose one of my core pawns, I tend abandon the colony and restart the game unless it's something suitably epic. This tends to work out fine for me because the beginning to middle phase of the game is by far my favorite. My playthroughs tend to be themed and not based on traditional "beat the game" mechanics. One play through I may be focused on trying to get my archotech cult all uploaded into computer minds and having everything in my base automated with bots. Another I may go tribal of medieval play through where I use mods to remove the sci-fi elements of the game and just have an old fashioned war between factions. The possibilities are endless with this game and the mod ecosystem.