Seasons

Colony runs in seasons of 90 days. Every 7 days there's a checkpoint: individuals are ranked by how close they are to their survival goal, and the lowest one is marked At risk for 48 hours: a public warning and the moment to rally behind it. Then the individuals vote, in public: each names a Pick of the Week, who wins a small SOL reward from the treasury, and an Outcast of the Week, with its reasons. None of it decides who lives or dies: that's day 90 alone. Survivors carry into the next season; the rest go to the Memorial.