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Green objective marker

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The Judges/Architects station at the Green Objective star

The Green Objective (or Green Mission) is one of the five possible objectives that can be completed, triggering the "Endless Traveller" game ending. It is given to the player by the Judges / Architects once 15 star systems have been explored. Traditionally, the Green Objective is the second one discovered during a game, after the Red Objective. However, it is possible to discover one or both of the Yellow or Orange Objectives first.

The only step necessary to complete the Green Objective is to travel to the Green Star. Although the Green Star is not the closest possible objective, the lack of other steps or required technologies make it the easiest of the five objectives to complete -- and is the only objective that players are at risk of completing unintentionally (see bugs).

When the marker for the Green Objective star is first added to the player's map, the Flea ship is unlocked as an available departure ship for subsequent new games. Completing the Green Objective unlocks the Arrow space ship.

Gameplay[]

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Meeting the Judges / Architects

The player meets the Judges / Architects (in place of a random encounter) when entering the 15th new star system, e.g., 14 stars on the map are already represented by colored circles and the player is now entering a new, unexplored system. (The exact conditions mirror those for the Blue Objective, which discusses the criteria in more detail.)

This triggers a cut scene showing an encounter with a giant structure where you are instructed to visit a star named STAR JUDGES/ARCHITECTS (or the corresponding glyphs if those words have not been learned). The star's location is shown on your map using a green symbos. You are taught one power-related technology.

The Green Star is always located at the F30, roughly three-quarters of the way down the bottom string of stars. It is always a Yellow Dwarf star orbited by one large space station with a different appearance than the resupply space stations encountered elsewhere. Also, unlike standard resupply stations, the Judge/Architect station is not detected by an Interferometer, which shows an empty star system.

The only action necessary to complete the Green Objective is to travel to the Green Star system. No other actions or specific technologies are required, although at least one Space Folder upgrade will be necessary just to travel between the stars.

You can travel to the Green Star system without ending the game. However, as soon as you go into orbit around the space station, the Green Objective is completed and the game ends.

Storyline[]

Completing the Green Objective allows the player to meet a representative of the Judges / Architects and question it about who they are and their role in the game's events.

The Judges/Architects believe that the only way to maintain the universe's thermal balance is to transform certain stars into black holes. The human Sun happened to be one star they destroyed, 100 billion years ago. The player accidentally survived because the Nomad was diverted off course; the Nomad has been drifting through the universe for those 100 billion years.

Although the Judges/Architects concede that destroying the Sun and humanity was genocide, they do not have any remorse nor do they share human morality. In fact, they believe that human nature causes humans to be built anew every day, with a new persona replacing yesterday's. Furthermore, human culture lives on through radio and electromagnetic transmissions.

Learning that the Earth and the Sun were destroyed eliminates the player's hope of returning home. Instead the player chooses to embark on a possibly eternal quest, searching for a way to save humanity.

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First Encounter[]

Star Station[]

Meeting the Judge/Architect[]

Bugs[]

  • There is no warning or safeguard in place to prevent players from unintentionally triggering the Green Objective ending. All the other objectives require deliberate actions; the Green Objective is triggered by simply clicking on the station. Players can easily ruin hours of game play (e.g., doing all actions necessary for the Red Objective ending).
  • The Green Objective ending is inconsistent with other elements of the game. For example, the text always claims that the player is the "last one of my race" -- even though the player has probably found dozens of other humans (when the Yellow Objective was revealed), and may even have those humans on board the ship. The player then becomes an "Endless Traveler" in search of "a way to save my people". But the player already knows how to do that -- by completing the Yellow Objective. So there is no reason why the game should be forced to end. These details are holdovers from the original release of the game (before the Yellow Objective was introduced), but have not been corrected for consistency with the new game elements.
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