[Alien Bases: How to proceed?]

Bringing a vehicle can also be very helpful. Ground vehicles have a huge amount of firepower and can be almost invincible, depending on the weaponry which the aliens use.

[Which Linux do you use?]

Debian GNU/Linux.

Also I'd like to add, that I would prefer a real native solution to a wrapper, if that is possible somehow. (e.g. by contacting the Playground SDK people and asking whether they would be willing to participate in porting the code or to contract out a port or to give you the source code for doing the port)