Base: Risky Business

The surface of this planet is a swirl of contradictions. On the one hand, it's studded with precious jewels and priceless known and as-yet-undiscovered metals - with plenty of tech applications. Getting to all that wonderful bounty, however, is more than a little tricky due to the heat, corrosive atmosphere and toxic lava coating the landscape. It's prohibitively expensive to develop more than tiny areas here and there, for building purposes, so this base needs to be on stilts to keep the equipment and residents out of harm's way. Mostly, anyway...