You are a cloud of dust (Riot? Quest)

[X] Collect more dust: 35.3%
[X] Move to a higher orbit: 47.1%
[X] Collapse: 17.6%
[X] Collect more gas: 11.8%
[X] Look around in more detail (Anything interesting or abnormal): 5.9%
[X] Move to a lower orbit: 11.8%

Concordance: 70.9%

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Despite the favorable conditions for orbital migrations, much of your time is spent accreting more gas and dust to the point where your disk once again grows faster than your core, although not for lack of trying. Vast quantities of dust are settled in your core, and you also manage to attract the gases traveling with you closer. With a spring in your orbital step, you begin moving to the next highest orbit, where you can already spot increasing quantities of probably ice-rich dust. You get about a quarter of the way there when all is said and done, and again, the density of material around you drops. The temperature of your surroundings also drops noticeably, and between this and the rapid recent growth in your core, your ability to retain an atmosphere improves greatly to the point where you're able to retain an increasingly dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide and, more recently, nitrogen even over seas of exposed lava seething with dissipated orbital heat and the fruits of your snack of actinide-rich dust. If your surface temperatures were in equilibrium with your surroundings, you might even be able to hold onto an atmosphere of methane or, with adequate cover from radiation, ammonia on long timescales.

Looking inward, it seems like there should be some way to move the somewhat excessive and offputting heat incurred by absorbing dust, but at the moment, they'd be rendered moot by the constant infalling of debris in your disk. For now, it would probably be best to focus on getting to another orbit, be it the cooler, ice-filled belts you were heading for or the somewhat depleted one you left.

[ ] Move to a higher orbit
[ ] Move to a lower orbit
[ ] Collect more gas
[ ] Collect more dust
[ ] Collapse
[ ] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))