The situation
Your starting point
First Light opens the Legacy campaign, a sequence of nine twenty-year terms running from 1882 to 2061. You begin with a small coal plant and a hundred customers in a fictional California utility.
Get electricity revenue to cover operating costs by the end of your fourth year, then prepare for growing demand. The company you build carries forward: later leaders inherit its equipment, customers and financial position.
The choices
What will you do?
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Make the first customers pay their way
Set a price that supports operation without losing the small community you serve. Early cash has several jobs and little room for waste.
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Expand beyond the opening plant
Watch demand growth and the arrival of a small hydro opportunity. Compare new construction with the coal bill you will otherwise keep paying.
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Leave something useful behind
Think past your own term. The next generation takes over the company you actually built, including its debts and aging equipment.
Put your plan to the test
Start small, then see what nearly two centuries of decisions can grow from it.
Open the campaign setup to begin, or continue your existing company. Later generations inherit the choices you made before them.
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Beyond the Dynamo (1902–1921)
Electricity is becoming a bigger business. Grow the customer base without leaving your successor a pile of debt.
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Affordable Growth (1922–1941)
The company has grown. Now keep electricity affordable as more people depend on it.
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The End of an Era
Your company's coal plants are getting old. Their replacements need years to build, and competitors are ready to take the customers you lose.
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