Last year you were just an ordinary bum on the street, but then the planetary government went and conscripted you into their exploration service. After a six month training program you are ready. You get given your assignment, find a rare metal, rumored to exist on a distant planet, and bring it back. But, right before you set out, you learn that the governments of other planets as well as space pirates are also after this metal, you must beat them to it.
character sheat:
Name: (your name) Sex: (male or female) (50 points to use) Health: (how much damage you will survive, x10 the number of points put) Intelligence: (how much you know, helps determine good places to spend the night and which prospecting sites look most promising. Strength: (How much weight you can carry, those spaceship parts and your equipment can be heavy.) Charisma: (this will help you haggle down the prices of stuff you buy, and haggle up the stuff you sell.) Weapon(s): (choose from below) Ship: (choose from below) Ship HP. (i choose) Ship Damage. (i choose) Ship travel speed. (i choose) Gov. of Homeworld: (choose from below) Cash: 0
Weapons: You are brought to a room filled with weapons, choose wisely, because new ones are expensive. Pistol: portable and easy to bring to bear, great accuracy. 6 damage. SMG: Low accuracy but great fire rate. 4 damage Rifle: Great accuracy and damage, but harder to bring to bear and slow fire rate. 12 damage.
Ship: After choosing your weapon you are brought to the hanger, each ship has different advantages.
Fox: Great maneuverability, mid-range damage, but low health. Neptune: Made for exploration, gives a planet exploration bonus, but poor maneuverability and firepower, high health. Veuian Corsair: Has a great hyperdrive, as well as high damage, but low maneuverability, mid-range health.
Government of Homeplanet: Democracy: The people are kind and freindly, buff to exploration, but nerf to damage. Dictatorship: The people are ruled with an iron fist, conscription is common, buff to damage, but nerf to spaceship health. Capitalist: The Planet is ruled by the rich, because of this you have an easier time finding goods, but prices are more likely to be high.
You go to the mining site, you do some prospecting and find a nice source of titanium, you take a sample back to your ship to be analyzed, you then call in the results and the animals you found to your home world. They wire you 50 univerchips for the mineral site and a 25 univerchip bonus for finding the animals. There is another possible mineral site on the other continent, but it is filled with large predators, or you could try another planet. What do you do?
Name: Ludwig Von Heichner Sex: male Health: 100 Intelligence: 10 Strength: 10 Charisma: 10 Weapon(s): Rifle 12 Damage Ship: Fox Ship HP. 100 Ship Damage. 35 Ship travel speed. 35 Gov. of Homeworld: Dictatership Univerchips: 0 Allies: 0
He agrees to your proposal, several weeks later his ship is well enough to hold air in and fly slowly, the nearest planet has a settlement, but is often raided. While you are thinking he says, "if you are worried about the pirates don't worry, I have a friend, he is a privateer and will be willing to give us escort." What do you do?
You mine a sample and carry it back to his hut. Once you get there you give him your supplies. In return for your help he gives you a potion that will increase one stat by five, in addition to a hunting rifle. You call in the mineral site and the behavior of the herbivores, in return for the diamonds your government wires you 75 univerchips. You are about to walk outside the compound when he warns you, "the sun is about to rise, and my house is surrounded by very territorial animals, I wouldn't recommend going out, but if you want to stay here and get some sleep you can." What do you do?
After sleeping the whole day, you wake up as the sun sets. You prepare to leave and the native comes to wish you goodbuy. "Thank you for your help young man, in case you want to find more precious minerals, I have heard from previous visitors that there are no more on this planet, or the rest of the system for that matter, but I heard there might be some in a nearby system, but it is unexplored." So, do you want to go to this new system, or one of the other two systems you haven't been to yet. What do you do?
You arrive at the new system, after a quick scan you discover there is a small settlement on one of the class M planets, and you are low on supplies. Or you could go to one of the other planets and hope you find some food. What do you do?
I do the smart thing.I upgrade my ship with the titanium I found.I then take the fruit and 2 of the animals for breeding purposes and leave for another planet.
Name: Ludwig Von Heichner Sex: male Health: 100 Intelligence: 10 Strength: 10 Charisma: 10 Weapon(s): Rifle 12 Damage Ship: Fox Ship HP. 100 Ship Damage. 35 Ship travel speed. 35 Gov. of Homeworld: Dictatership Univerchips: 0 Allies: 0
What time of day is it?
"Good. However, I'd like to look for the mineral I was looking for previously. You may go if you wish. I still have my Fox." Then I head off to the source again.
Using a welding torch you heat the titanium enough to shape it into plates, which you then weld onto your ship, increasing your hp by 50. You scan some of the other planets and the only ones that are possible candidates are:
Nub Val V: Class M, designation: unsafe, Temperatures: -10 to 5 Celsius at poles, 30 to 40 at equator. Metal source possible at poles, no life at poles, life clustered at equator.
Brotar: Class L, designation: unsafe, temperatures: 0 to 15 celsius at poles, 30 to 40 at equator, atmosphere is poisonous to humans and there is little life.
Hotat: Class M, Designation: Safe, Temperatures: earthlike, There is an outpost from your government there, good place to buy and sell stuff, and drop off some of the native animals offspring.
Name: Ludwig Von Heichner Sex: male Health: 100 Intelligence: 10 Strength: 10 Charisma: 10 Weapon(s): Rifle 12 Damage Ship: Fox Ship HP. 100 Ship Damage. 35 Ship travel speed. 35 Gov. of Homeworld: Dictatership Univerchips: 50 Allies: 1 Zago Rrwil: freelance explorer, pilots a corsair, nice maneuverability and cargo space, mid-range damage, high health.
you go search the source, but all you find is some gold and silver, you call it in and receive 50 univerchips. Zago can not leave without your help and there is no more mineral sites on this planet. What do you do?
The real name of the metal is 37 syllables long, so I just call it unobtainium. (thumbs up if you got the reference) As for what it looks like, it was used to build the ship seen below but i can't find a picture of the cube the black dude showed to the rest of the crew, but if you find one, feel free to post it.
You stop by the outpost and give them the animals and fruit, as well as seedling plants. You look around and see a tavern, a hotel, and market. You saw some ships in the hanger but no pilots, but you could try the tavern, or you could go to the market and buy supplies first. What do you do.