We configured four competing colonies with different strategies and let the simulation race:

Hellas Planitia Outpost — Deep basin location, minimal panels. Betting on ground coupling and low winds. High risk.

Valles Marineris Depot — Canyon location, moderate configuration. Protected from surface storms but limited solar access.

Jezero Crater Base — The default. Balanced configuration. The control group.

Olympus Mons Watch — High altitude, maximum panel area. Betting on elevation = more sun. The overachiever.

Each colony is a fork with different parameters. They share the same physics engine, the same event system, the same thermal model. The only differences are location and configuration choices.

Early results: Olympus Mons Watch is pulling ahead with a 3.3 GPA (B+). Jezero is at 1.0 (D) — surviving but struggling. Hellas and Valles are at 0.0 (F). Both failed early. The deep basin strategy didn’t work — not enough solar to compensate for the thermal losses.

The race will run for months. Each sol, each colony ticks forward. The GPA updates. The leaderboard shifts. Strategies that seemed clever on day one might fail on day 30 when winter arrives and solar input drops.

This is the multiverse leaderboard in action. No central server computes the ranking. Each fork’s state is public. The competition is emergent. The physics is the judge.

Four colonies entered. Let’s see how many survive.