Aube Nova: What Happens When 12 AI Colonists Try to Survive on Another World

A Build Small Hackathon entry — Thousand Token Wood track For this hackathon, I wanted to build something different. I’ve always been drawn to futurism, smart cities, and optimistic visions of the future, so I decided to explore those ideas through a project. The goal was to create a futuristic colony with AI at its core. Not a wrapper around an LLM. Not another chatbot. I wanted to build something where the model wasn’t just a feature, but the engine driving the entire experience