Tough choises indeed. Looking at what we know: we start on the west side of an archipelago map at the SE side of the minimap. In Mapgeneration I've hardly ever seen a big landmass extending to both sides of the mapdivision line. To be sure however we need a curragh, also there seems to land nearby. Contact also offers good trading benefits.
Otoh, on a huge map there might be quite some land to be covered, even in this outpost, so that makes a call for a settler.
In brief imo we should go for combined exploration and expansion first.
From a 28.8 phone line at an A'dam hotel.
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That was a pretty good gamble. -- Scotty, The Galileo Seven, stardate 2821.5, Episode 14
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