@Hank In my head I imagined something like LV-426 a la the Alien/Aliens films. So lots of retro 80's tech inside a prefab colony - although a bit more advanced...this is 40K, which would also explain the crap tech too! - sheltered from the outside elements.
There essentially a series of prefab buildings all connected together around a central command point, with seperate areas for the vox-relay, living quarters, data-dump etc. It is quite a large structure(s) overall, and each pod will have dropped in at a different point.
If @Quinntessential wants to chime in at all, since it is technically 'her colony' (am I correct in assuming your gender there?), then she can do so as well.
There essentially a series of prefab buildings all connected together around a central command point, with seperate areas for the vox-relay, living quarters, data-dump etc. It is quite a large structure(s) overall, and each pod will have dropped in at a different point.
If @Quinntessential wants to chime in at all, since it is technically 'her colony' (am I correct in assuming your gender there?), then she can do so as well.