"The aurora was struck by a mysterious energy pulse"
QuillShot
Sweden Join Date: 2015-12-29 Member: 210565Members
Sweden Join Date: 2015-12-29 Member: 210565Members
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Warper warp hole = Energy pulse
Underwater warp hole making a bridge between an ocean and a pressurized space ship = Explosive decompression
The current story is pretty minimal and I really think it is only a placeholder to explain roughly why you're in your current situation and what to expect. I imagine there will be a fairly well fleshed out story at some point in the near future, but I don't have any expectations beyond that, including whether or not the current story will even be a part of that final story.
So there must be something else entering the aurora after crash?
The mysterious energy pulse was effectively a defense system left in place by a xenophobic alien race protecting what amounts to an aquatic nature preserve. The Aurora is shot down. Three days later, the drive quantumsplodes. After which, alien drones and survey equipment appear on the scene, forcing the player to avoid the top surface. While hostile, they will not form a coordinated response against the player due to being drones only, with only small occasional attacks that can be fled from.
Once the player peels enough scrap out of the Aurora under the nose of the unnamed alien threat, contact is reestablished with the mining agency who lost the Aurora. They confirm that rescue was launched, and indeed, has already arrived. It's left partially in sub-space, however, in order to hide from the unknown vessel in very low orbit around the planet. Which is the source of the drones.
It is left to the player to single handedly construct and fire an exoatmospheric torpedo designed to slap that drone carrier out of the sky. The reasoning being, if it fails, it won't alert the unknown ship to the existence of the unarmed rescue vessel. You succeed and now there are two wrecks on the surface.
Disaster strikes, however, when your rescue vessel is utterly destroyed on approach to the planet. There are now three enemy vessels in low orbit, which responded to the assault on the drone carrier, and worse, none of them appear to be automated. The speed of their reaction insinuates that either there are many of them near, or their technological level severely outpaces our own and allows them faster communication and travel. It is at this time that coordinated attacks against the player happen, forcing him or her to hide in deeper and deeper waters. While shallow waters were once inviting and safe, now only death lingers there. The last message you receive informs you that help in the form of rescue ships plus military escort are now enroute... but it will take thirty days for the fleet to form before it can jump.
You are alone, hunted extremely aggressively, and have to repurpose tools and equipment towards more military purposes that were never intended. You live in permanent darkness, and surrounded by threat of death from above, and below. You have to hold out for thirty days.
Exactly. You ever introduce a massive flood of water to delicate dark matter reactors?