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Like I said, I just won the game without killing anyone.  I had an elite bunch of writers at the liberal guardian.  I was just having trouble affecting specific issues.  But sleepers are a good suggestion.  I didn't mess around with them too much.  I mostly just got sleeper lawyers to defend.

Well, it's not kittens, but Fluttershy thows fluffy bunnies in fire in the third episode of the Friendship is Witchcraft series.

Friendship is Witchcraft - "The Perfect Swarm" (Abridged) (Episode 1)
Friendship is Witchcraft - "Read it and Sleep" (Abridged) (Episode 2)
Friendship is Witchcraft - "Dragone Baby Gone" (Episode 3)

Seriously hilarious. I recommend giving it a look.

According to a quick excel approximation i just ran, if your population has an average lifespan of 80 years and 6 kids per couple, you need almost 30 years to double your population. With 5 kids you need almost 40 years, and with 4 kids you need almost 60 years.

Considering the fact that one year in-game is 12 hours in reality, you'd still have to wait a freakin long time if you started with hundreds or thousands, and wanted to become an actual civilisation and not just a little town ^^.

Heck, even if you were a race where couples had one kid every year, with the offspring able to have his own children next year, and no mortality whatsoever, if you started with a thousand colonists, you'd still need 40 years (20 days of continuous playing) to populate a planet at earth's level (~7 billion people).

But yea, maybe hundreds are still ok as far as genetic diversity is concerned.