One thing I really like about this installment, though, is the Freakshow and the Trolls. I never played CoH, so I have no idea how much of their detailing is original to UF, but they seem like real subcultures and that gives the whole thing another layer of verisimilitude. If this had been a Star Trek episode, for instance, which it could easily have been plot-wise, all of the colonists would've been more-or-less indistinguishable, and either "how do we get everyone to cooperate in the face of this threat" would have been the entire story, or it wouldn't have come up at all.