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Upon entering a new star system, a journal entry written by the astronaut is shown. Sometimes these will have no bearing on the game and just give the player insight into the thoughts (or madness) of the astronaut. Sometimes they will be random incidents that will cause changes to the resources of the ship. Sometimes they will be interactive encounters that require the player to make choices that can impact the status of the ship and its resources. The exact text of some entries has changed between game versions; images of the Omega Edition text is provided here whenever possible.

Journal Entries[]

  • When I refill my oxygen tanks with the air of a garden planet, the smell of the place fills my ship.
    I take with me the exotic scent of invisible flowers I will never see again, and I sleep among them and they bend my way of thinking.
  • Emptiness. Death. Life and intelligence are accidental.
  • I have one cubic meter of rations left. It was intended to feed a whole crew, but now I am the only one left. The rations include concentrated sticks of cereal and dried meat. They don't taste great, but I don’t notice the taste anymore.
    Sometimes, when visiting a habitable planet, I discover fruits and berries that look and smell edible. But I never eat them.
    It would be stupid to escape exploding supernovae and huge black holes merely to die because of an attractive fruit.
  • I see millions of dead bodies floating around my ship.
    I know I am hungry and thirsty and I haven’t had enough sleep.
    I have thus lost all trust in myself.
  • My daily physical exercises are: stay upright and speak aloud in the best English I can... even if I need new words to deal with these new experiences.
    I once read that civilized people marooned for years on a desert island may slowly lose their language skills...
    I must maintain a sound mind.
  • I check all my alien devices on a regular basis. In order to not forget what I know, I talk to myself - well, I talk to an imaginary self that watches over me. At times, he tells me that I have forgotten something important.
    Sometimes, to my terror, it tells me things I've never actually known.
  • While lingering on this tiny, cramped ship, where I get little physical exercise, I often wonder: why not give up and settle on the first garden planet I come to?
    Why not spend the rest of my life, alone perhaps, on a nice beach?
    It's because I understand that these planets, though inhabitable, are deeply alien. The shapes and colors are strange, depressing, unsettling. When I walk those grounds, I yearn only for my spaceship, which is filled with my own smell.
  • I am concerned by the regenerative powers of the Space Folder.
    I see two possibilities. Either I return to Earth and nobody ever grows old again. Overpopulation, extinction... madness.
    Or, as eternal beings, we colonise stars with the Space Folder technology. The Galaxy becomes full of arrogant and immortal humans.
    It's terrifying. I wonder if returning home is a good thing after all.
  • I entered the system during a full solar flare.
    Streaks of fire towered over millions of miles of open space, in all directions, like the columns of a divine temple.
    I wasn't afraid, for I've decided there is no more beautiful place to die.
  • My hair has started to fall out, a victim of the cosmic rays. As such, I have decided to shave it off before it gets too patchy. It will grow back once I get used to the rays.
    You see? I’m an optimist.
  • So far, everything is fine. Yippee.
  • I just experienced something incredible. I was in deep space. Luminous lines, like the erratic course of a butterfly, but curious and friendly like a dolphin, guided my ship.
    Then the light was gone. What could it have been?
  • I lie on the ground and wait for the Space Folder to finish its work.
    I am one with the ship, like a material mass vibrating in the void.
    Someday, the ship will pilot me.
  • When space folds and my ship accelerates to c velocity, I see the universe contract through my observation bay. Stars drip like luminous, thawing snow.
    The visible universe becomes round and small, first a beam and then a single spot of light... But, in fact, it is I who am the light beam crossing the cosmos.
  • My imaginary-me and I had a long talk today. He told me about a summer evening I spent on a beach with friends. There was a campfire. One of them had a guitar - it's something that makes music.
    I say this because, when he told me about the guitar, I did not understand him. I thought he was speaking alien. Then he explained to me at length what a guitar was, and finally I remembered.
  • A nitrogen line has developed a leak... Same old story: I was sitting on a frozen icecube with ten layers of improvised gloves on my hands... But the cold here turned the water vapor in the air into snow! My ship was like a drifting snowball. I even made a little snow alien.
  • I sometimes wonder if I am a threat to my own race. What if aliens, looking for resources, somehow followed me back to Earth?
    I must understand what is at stake here. It is as important as getting back home.
  • When the Space Folder disrupts the fabric of reality, I sense alterations in the flow of time. So I did a little experiment.
    I made a little die out of a tiny piece of metal and threw it. Oddly, the die showed 6 *before* I threw it.
    It’s hard to explain. When you spend all day folding spacetime, everything seems illogical.
  • That’s it -- I’ve lost all my hair to the gamma rays. It’s floating around in the cabin, causing an enormous mess.
    No more eyebrows, no more arm hair, no more...well, you get the picture. And to think -- people on Earth pay for that!
    I feel like I’m just a big smooth egg.
  • Red alert today. As I was diving into a new star system, a micro-meteorite struck the observation bay and cracked it.
    My 02 levels started dropping and there was a hissing noise... I took a piece of fabric, some tape and a metal plate. I even used a little saliva -- it wasn't pretty.
    As soon as I land on a planet with an atmosphere, I’ll fix this up properly. In the meantime, I am quite happy to be alive.
  • I don’t dream of space. I scarcely get enough sleep, and when I do, I dream of what I miss: the smell of wet foliage and grilled meat, the taste of chocolate... and the feeling of being near other people.
  • I have escaped death far too often. It's an old friend now.
  • I will return to Earth and be hailed as a hero. I will. I WILL!
  • I have grown younger. I touched the alloy in the Space Folder and my hand was purged of all sign of middle age, as if I were a young man unchanged by the flow of life.
  • Butterflies flit from flower to flower, gather pollen, and enable the reproduction of plants.
    Sometimes, when I learn a new technology from one planet and show it to the inhabitants of another, I think of myself as a butterfly; spreading life unknowingly.
  • It's my birthday today.
    Happy birthday, my friend. May you survive at least one more day.
  • I have regained some measure of hope. Since the beginning of my adventure, I have learned new technologies and discovered new ways to elude death. There's no reason this process should stop.
    I believe that, someday, I will find a way to jump from one galaxy to another and find my way back home.
  • I think faster in the void. You may say it's an illusion caused by the fear of what's out there. But I think not. Far from the huge masses of the stars, physical limits change. I feel my brain working better.
    Maybe that's why I understand these alien technologies so well.
  • Once more, space folds around me. As I slip from one star system to another, I marvel at the power of this technology.
    With the Space Folder, Mankind could grow and prosper throughout the stars.
    I must return to Earth -- not only for my sake, but to deliver this instrument of freedom.
  • Once again, space bends around me. According to the laws of physics, each jump pushes me forward in space... but also forward in time.
    How far? One hour? 10 years? 1000 years? Is it even possible to return to my world as I knew it?
  • On my own, I have charted more territory than any human explorer in history.
    I wonder if these discoveries will change me - I wonder if I will still be human the day I land back on Earth.
    Because I will find Earth again. I know it.
  • More than ever before, I have come to realize the precariousness of human life. Many of us are afraid - or simply believe - that life is an accident.
    Back on our poor old rock, Earth, we imagined that intelligent life was a divine scheme... that we were unique... that we had a destiny. And yet I now know that intelligent life is recurrent in the universe. Accidental. Potentially inconsequential.
    We are not unique, and we have no destiny other than the one we make for ourselves.
  • I have met many intelligent species while faring through the cosmos. They must have crossed each other’s paths previously, so I'm surprised that no centralized government or organization has yet emerged from this promiscuity.
    My way of thinking is perhaps too alien, at least to them. This is the curse of my extraterrestrial intelligence. I simply cannot understand them.
  • Here's something funny: I have nothing but this log to note all my discoveries. I have no paper, no pen, not even a computer to take notes. Someday, I will get back to Earth and people will ask me a lot of questions. I will answer:
    "Well, I don't remember, you know, I was busy.".
    Survival takes a lot of time.
  • My radio receiver is always turned on. Mankind has been broadcasting radio and TV waves in space for 300 years now. So, if I am around 300 light-years away from Earth, I may receive them and find a way back home. And find hope again.
    Also, I’d love to watch some of those 20th century movies again.
  • Drifting again, in the dim, twinkling starlight.
    When space folds around me, my field of view contracts into a blinding white pinpoint of light. The whole universe is fully contained in this luminous disc.
    Actually, from an outside point of view, my ship should look like a point too. Perhaps some of these points of light I see in the starfield are not stars at all, but other travellers hopelessly lost on their way home.
    The thought cures my loneliness... but only for a moment.
  • How did I get so far from home? Did I meet a naked singularity that thrust me to some distant place in the Universe? If one existed in the solar system, we would have found it long ago. There must be another reason. Has my ship been captured by aliens?
  • This strange alien technology I have inherited... some of it is not activated merely by pushing buttons.
    Sometimes, I must *think* to unlock special protocols - sometimes I have to *feel* the machine. With time, I become my ship and it becomes me.
    I'm not sure it's safe to pilot this vessel for much longer. I fear one day I won't want to return home -- that I, like my ship, will yearn only for new stars.
  • I now understand how vast the distance between stars... there is equally as much void between them as between atoms. And between those opposites, an anomaly called life struggles to survive.
  • There's no day/night cycle here... not even a clock.
    I count the days by checking my oxygen use. I travel at such speeds that objective time has no meaning. I feel dizzy.
  • Ghosts talk and ask me to join them.
    Outside the ship.
    I have no notion of time anymore.
    I do not know if I have had enough sleep.
  • I remember, a long time ago, that I climbed a hill not far from my home to watch the stars. I imagined wondrous civilizations on opulent worlds, and ancient, beautiful beings, living out their strange lives.
    Now that I am trapped among them, I miss my hill.
  • There was a thumping noise coming from somewhere.
    I searched for the source of this noise for... I don't know, maybe a couple of hours. And then I realized it was my heartbeat.
    In the silence, it sounded like thunder.
  • The Space Folder is made of alien technology. I know how to build it and fix it, but I don’t know how it actually works.
    When I switch it on, it vibrates with a heavenly chant, like a cosmic choir singing my death.
  • I miss Earth.
    Well, no, in fact I miss hamburgers.
  • There's something wrong with old sci-fi TV shows. The captain of the ship discovers a new world inhabited by aliens who look vaguely human-like – and among them is at least one smoking hot alien chick. They are alien, but still decently attractive, you see.
    Let me tell you: I am a captain, and all alien planets are just depressing rocks with nothing notable on them. For girls, there’s no place like Earth.
  • My water recycling plant is down. Until I find a solution, all my water is frozen into a huge cube.
    So, when I am thirsty, I have to get down to lick the big ice cube. It's all fun and play.
  • I don't really know where I am going - where my jump will send me. If I arrive too close to a neutron star, oops. Ha ha. That's why I record my log entries before the arrival.
    Then, you say, that if I jump into a neutron star nobody will be able to read my log anyway.
    Well, screw you.
  • I've cut a piece of rubber out of an old space suit and made a ball out of it.
    In zero-G, I have been able to perform great tricks. Go to hell with your video games, I have a BALL.
  • Note to self: make sure I get royalties for my story.
  • What do WWI aircraft pilots and Earth-Jupiter spaceliner engineering crew, like myself, have in common?
    Suicidal tendencies.
    We may die. But to people like me, death is an old friend. I believe, above all, that we are curious and adventurous. What greater adventure is there beyond death?
  • I believe that, if this log survives my adventure, it will serve as an example for all future generations. Well, generations to come, read this: when people tell you about an "easy job", know that no job is never easy. When they tell you there's "easy money", know the money isn’t for you.
    Oh, and if you are reading this, it means I survived much more than you ever will. So stop whining and get back to work.
  • I don't mind being alone. I never liked humankind much anyway. Humans just think about themselves. And humans think they are very funny. But humor is merely an attempt to escape to the urge to commit violence, a truly human act written indelibly in our genetic code.
    Since I am alone, no joke is coming to mind.
  • A lot of stars are nearby. In order to protect myself from cosmic rays, I wear a space suit most of the time. As I can’t shower, it's a real pain.
    Sometimes, to wedge myself between some of my equipment, I must take off the suit. Then, I see that my face is tanned almost black, and my body pale.
    And that's not all: the unknown power of these stars has left strange marks on my body.
  • I had a dream in which someone was talking to me in an alien language, and I saw shapes and colors that I cannot now recall.
    Am I still human? Or am I becoming... more?
  • I'm beginning to understand the alien language. There's no grammar -- just words against words, a little bit like Mandarin.
    But the words themselves have strange properties. When I see a star and speak its alien name, I feel as though the star somehow moves closer.
    I wonder if the Space Folder isn't just asking the stars' permission to approach.
  • This dream again. It's been six times already. I wake up hearing a crystalline chant. I walk the corridors of the ship and, behind me, there's another me, still sleeping.
    At first I though I was hallucinating, but I think it's actually a malfunction with the Space Folder. It's started bending time instead of space.
  • Let's say I find a magic lamp drifting in space and it allows me one wish. What would I wish for?
    I must admit to a craving for sausages. Maybe I could return to Earth, but discretely, so I can have some sausages without needing to tell my story a thousand times.
    No... My wish would be to find out what I really want.
  • There was an accident in the interplanetary propulsion system and a leak in a mercury line; it spilled everywhere on the ground, and even though it is quite toxic, I tried to gather it up with my hands.
    The mercury created a mirror-like surface, and I saw the reflection of my own eyes. They have gone completely white, probably from all the cosmic rays. It’s scary.
  • I know that, when you die, your entire life is relived in a fraction of time. But a lifetime is a long time.
    I think that, when you die, the perception of your own consciousness stretches a long way. Maybe I am dying right now and this mad odyssey is nothing but a hallucination. Maybe I am now in a shipwreck, drifting away, not far from Jupiter.
  • When I left Earth for the first time in this ship, I received a message telling me that I had left my music collection behind.
    I told them that silence couldn't be so bad. And, besides, since I was going to spend almost all my time in cryonics it wouldn't be a great loss.
    What an idiot.
  • The ship took a wrong turn and I was subjected to a blast of gamma rays.
    I did a quick check-up with my onboard equipment.
    I am ok. Well, I may develop cancer in a couple of years, but right now I'll be happy if I survive to the end of next month.
  • I am dizzy. The stars are too bright. When I close my eyes, I see them through my eyelids.
  • Truth is loneliness.
    Agony is loneliness.
    Loneliness is a prison.
    Loneliness is the cult of death.
    Loneliness is the last stop on the way to madness.
  • Twice a week, for 6 hours, I set my ship on a rapid circular trajectory to create an artificial gravity of 1.5 times that of the Earth. I have to maintain my musculature.
    Sometimes though, I lose track of time, and I’m not sure if I have kept to the schedule. I have grown so thin that I've been forced to modify my space suit. The arms are too bulky for me.
  • I sing an ode to the man who flies through infinite space, his arms flung wide.
  • If Mankind reads these words someday, or if a superior being finds them and delivers them to my people, let them know that I loved them all.
  • The devices here are constantly subjected to cosmic rays. Metals vaporize and fill the air with strange smells, a pleasant enough change from the constant smell of sweat.
    I can smell burnt sugar and the delicate salty scent of an invisible sea.
  • I’m working on my alien right now. I don't have any notebook to write in, and fiddling with the computer doesn’t help me decipher these strange glyphs. So I write on the walls with a piece of burnt carbon.
    Yes, like a caveman, but hey, I live in a sort of cave anyway.
  • If I could stare deep into the palm of my hand, I would see organic molecules made of atoms – atoms floating in an emptiness as vast in proportion to their size as the distances between stars.
    There's no way to seize the nature of an atom – I think this is perhaps some reality vertigo circus created to conceal this fundamental truth: atoms are actually stars – possibly the same stars I see right now through the observation bay.
    Our world is a folded fractal.
  • Work in space. Experience adventures. You wouldn't want to live your life behind a desk, now, would you? You need space, my boy.
    Yippee, I have plenty of space now -- an enormous 18m².
  • Funny. There was some kind of...spider in the cockpit. Where had it come from? My last landing?
    Anyway, the zero-g had messed with its senses, causing it to weave a perfectly spheric web. I considered making it my friend, like a pet – even though I’m not crazy about spiders. But I soon realized it could be very dangerous, so I crushed it and blew it out the airlock.
    I really hope it wasn’t some alien ambassador.
  • You might think it's cold in space, but the cosmic rays have actually warmed my cockpit to boiling temp.
    And sweating in here isn't a great idea; it doesn't drip, it just flies around in little pearls, creating a dense, smelly fog.
    I should really land somewhere, so gravity can fling the sweat properly onto the floor.
  • According to my calculations, last night was New Year’s Eve.
    To celebrate, I wrote the year on the wall with a piece of burnt carbon and synthesized some spirits with a few spare litres of hydrogen and solvents. They didn't taste good but they did the trick.
    Oh yeah, and I synthesized the alcohol with an electrode that nearly set fire to the fuel tanks – but what's New Years without some fireworks?
  • I record my voice and play it back on the computer so I don't forget the sound of words.
    I was told during my training that you can forget the sound of your language after only 3 months of solitary confinement. It would be silly if I went back to Earth and started talking like a redneck.
  • I string an iron cable between two modules; it produces a pleasant sound when I pluck it. So, here I am, with my one-string instrument. The music is primitive, admittedly, but it’s far more enjoyable than, say, my own heartbeat.
    Sometimes I consider broadcasting my performances. Maybe I could find a manager out there.
  • I have given it some thought and come to a conclusion: the main problem with aliens is that none of them are sexy girls.
  • Red alert... again.
    I was adjusting the pressure in an O2 line and, suddenly, I just couldn't bring myself to push on a lever. Something in my mind was stopping me.
    Then I looked closely at the lever and realized that I was in the airlock, about to throw myself into the cosmos.
    I am quite happy that some part of my brain still wants me to live.
  • I have managed to produce a few dozen graphene plates.
    I will write my name and my story on them, using as few words as possible; they are very hard to engrave -- I have to use a powerful laser.
    I will give them as a gift to the aliens I meet, or leave them in special places on empty planets.
    Who knows... maybe humans will track my course someday.
  • I remember a time when my main problem was not having paid the electricity bill on time.
  • So there was a surge of pressure in the oxygen line. Everything turned red. For a brief moment, I looked death square in the face.
    Just another day on Death Ship number one.
  • Never wish for adventure.
    Wish for a boring life, with nice, dull neighbours and stupid TV shows on Sundays.
    Never wish for adventure. Or someday, you might be spending your Sundays with a hand frozen on a hydrogen valve, wondering how you are going to fix it without moving, because if you don't, the ship will explode.
  • I fell asleep on the throttle, was hit by a 13G acceleration which threw me to the back of the ship, and I lost consciousness.
    Bad news is I have a big bump at the back of my head and it's painful when I wear my helmet.
    Good news is, I didn't fly into an asteroid.
  • I have noticed that during interstellar travel, my ship doesn't go in a straight line... it’s as if there are invisible space highways that allow for the folding of space.
    If that's true, imagine the power of those who built them!
  • Few people – I am the only one, in fact – have known the void between stars. Out there, my thoughts are clearer.
    I have wondered if the stellar masses are altering the physical properties of space, and somehow limiting the speed of information. Far away from these masses, I think much faster -- maybe ten times faster. This may explain how I've been able to comprehend alien technology.
  • 99 alien races and not one looks like a pretty girl. Damn you, Captain Kirk.
  • I am concerned that all this solitude will make me difficult to live with. To maintain my social skills, I am busily enlarging my circle of imaginary friends.
  • Synaesthesia.
    The Space Folder broke down and was briefly electrocuted – not by electricity, but by this mysterious energy that converts hydrogen into other forms of energy.
    My senses were dazzled. The whistle of the Space Folder exploded in my mouth like spicy caramel, and the light of its pulsating tubes felt soft, like cotton...
    You can't imagine how hard it is to fix anything in this condition. Even now, two hours later, I bumped my head and instead of feeling pain I heard a choir of angels.
  • Okay... just pull yourself together.
    I just encountered a huge source of energy. I think it might have been some form of Casimir effect. It engulfed the entire ship.
    Then, as if through a mirror, I saw the image of my ship hurtling away from me. I don't think it was a simple reflection. Instead, I have a theory: it could be a true duplicate, created by the quantum entanglement.
    If it was, another me is now travelling through the galaxy. Or, even more frighteningly... he could be the original and I’M the double.
  • There is but one thing that makes me cling to life: the will to find Earth again. Sometimes the will fades, especially when I meditate before the stars and I find myself enjoying this life of travels. In those moments, I feel that mankind isn’t that interesting and that Earth is just a dusty rock.
    But I must maintain my grasp on this one goal... Without it, I fear my end would come soon.
  • I was blasted by an electromagnetic tsunami.
    I didn't pay attention to it, but it could have been radio or TV waves. I would have liked to watch an alien TV show!
  • Halfway through my interstellar travels, I found a rogue planet, drifting in the cosmos!
    A gas planet, dark and hiding in the shadows... I went so close that its gravity drew me towards it, and for a few seconds I saw tiny lights on the planet's surface.
    I wonder what kind of strange civilization could have developed there, far from any star...
  • I’ve seen God knows how many planets; not one had a Catholic cross or any other religious symbol. The conquest of space must surely be the end of all human religion. At least, as we currently know it.
  • I dreamt of a labyrinth, and drew it on the ground with a piece of burnt carbon.
    Then I stepped away and I understood that it was a circuit diagram. The circuit diagram of the master computer.
    I’d never seen it before. Do you think the ship is trying to communicate with me?
  • I caught a cold.
    Not much, you think? You couldn’t be more wrong. A cold in 0-G is the antechamber of hell: when you sneeze, it goes in all directions and you end up floating in your own mucus.
    Pretty lame.
  • Unbelievable. I found, under a food crate, a bottle of champagne. At first I told myself, okay, let's save it for an occasion – the one when I finally meet a sexy alien – but then, I thought, "I could die tomorrow."
    So I opened it. In 0-G, the champagne exploded in all directions.
    I'm so desperate for a buzz that I've been licking it off the walls.
  • Anything is possible. If I get back alive, I will have proven that anything is possible for Mankind.
  • Sometimes, I wonder if I'm part of some large-scale experiment conducted by the government to evaluate the human capacity to fight madness in solitary confinement. It would explain many things, starting with why I am still alive.
    And sometimes I feel like I am in an alien experiment, like a rat in a labyrinth.
  • There’s a leak in the ship.
    The loss doesn’t bother me much -- it's less than a kilo per hour -- but the leak leaves a bright trail behind the ship.
    If there are enemies here, I’ll know soon enough.
  • This morning, a woman awakened me by whispering in my ear. She said: everything will be fine.
    It was a very soothing hallucination.
  • [If Emissary on board]: I spent a few hours with my fellow traveler. He painted strange pictures on the walls of weird and wonderful things… diagrams, space routes, secrets and civilizations... An entire world... and I didn’t understand any of it. But it was amazing all the same. Maybe one day I’ll understand.
  • [If Emissary on board]: My fellow traveler is listless. He has no energy whatsoever. I know he is worried and lonely. If only there was something I could do for him.

Random Incidents[]

  • I crossed paths with a gray asteroid that reminded me of the Moon. I remembered that the Moon had a lot of oxygen locked up in its bedrock, so I sampled a large specimen from it, did a little bit of electrolytic chemistry, and voilà — oxygen.
    Not a lot, but some. (Gain 5 Oxygen)
  • I noticed a small leak in a liquid nitrogen line. To clarify, I noticed it *too late*.
    Nothing much to worry about, actually, but the intense cold weakened the hull at the site and I need to fix it. (Lose 15 Hull)
  • The Space Folder malfunctioned and I found myself far away. Very, very far away. So far away actually that every galactic cluster in the universe was just a tiny spot, glimmering in darkness.
    I used the Space Folder again, hoping to find the way back to where I came from — and it worked! It’s a miracle!
    If I’d known, I’d have taken pictures from the far side of the universe. Well, I don't have a camera anyway. (Lose 10 Fuel)
  • A white, elongated cloud, isolated in space. I analyze it and discover that it's hydrogen. H2 molecules have aggregated here due to the strange gravitational properties of this system.
    Or for some other reason maybe... who cares? My tanks need filling. (Gain 15 Fuel)
  • I just passed through a very dense asteroid field. It was too late to change course. I survived, but there are dents and cracks everywhere on the hull.
    It was a really close call. (Lose 20 Hull)
  • The reactor was shaking badly. I determined that some internal component must have broken down. I opened the housing to check it out and was suddenly deluged with hot fuel!
    I fixed the problem but I lost a lot of fuel in the process. (Lose 20 Fuel)
  • The cosmic rays from a local star were bombarding a powerful magnetic field, creating, in open space, an aurora borealis as big as a thousand suns! I was enthralled by the unspeakable beauty of this giant and luminous arc...
    That was, until I discovered that the magnetic disturbance had erased entries in my database. (Forget 1 Technology)
  • A small spot was shining, far away. A comet.
    It was coming fast, straight at me, actually.
    Then I realized it was the size of a planet!
    I had to use the full power of my reactors to escape. And believe me, I barely made it out. (Lose 20 Fuel)
  • I accidentally sliced off a bit of my finger while servicing one of the techs. I tried to cauterize the wound with a soldering iron (bad idea). It HURT. On top of that, I dropped the iron and burnt a hole through a piece of equipment.
    Some days, nothing goes right. (1 Module Damaged)
  • When space unfolded, I found myself flying at top speed through a massive cosmic... web. A spider-web!
    I did my best to fly between the giant strands and to dodge the huge spiders floating within it. Thankfully, they all seemed dead — frozen solid. I got out eventually, though not without taking a few dents.
    Could have been much worse. (Lose 15 Hull)
  • First, everything went red, then black. That's when I realized that oxygen was filling up the cabin! Blind and almost unconscious, I quickly put on my spacesuit and waited...
    When I came to my senses, I found the problem: a break in the oxygen line. I lost a lot of air but at leas I survived. (Lose 20 Oxygen)
  • During the last trip, I noticed a dent in the hull: bizarrely, its shape was a perfect reflection of the nearby star...
    I had to spend some time outside to fix it. (Lose 5 Oxygen)
  • Another astounding tale... I came across a huge energy ball, shiny and colorless, that seemed alive. It grabbed my ship with... curiosity?... Since I was sure I was living my last moments, I quickly put on my space suit.
    Smart move, because it took me out of the ship by some kind of teleportation. I was examined briefly, then it fled. It took me several hours to get back to the ship.
    Weird. (Lose 20 Oxygen)
  • The ship experienced a power surge during the last jump ... or something like that anyway. It knocked the Space Folder out of order.
    Sure hope I have enough raw materials to fix it... (Space Folder Damaged)
  • It's hard to change direction at faster-than-light. Sadly, I didn't see that huge white space whale in front of me...My engines cut a huge gash across its side.
    I feel awful about it... but its internal fluids flowed over my ship and, somehow, repaired my hull. What an unpleasant irony. (Gain 20 Hull)
  • A comet crashed into my ship. I died.
    Actually, and surprisingly enough, I am still alive.
    The comet was soft and filled with water and ice. I gathered some of the water. Which means that, not only I am alive, but I will also stay alive longer than expected. (Gain 15 Oxygen)
  • I found something quite amazing: deep inside the core of an iron-rich moon, a construction site full of working machines... working for millions of years, building small probes and launching them into space, apparently all that's left of a civilisation long gone, millennia ago.
    I tried to explore but an automated defense system fired on me and drove me off. (Lose 20 Hull)
  • While flying too close to a star, I was bombarded by cosmic rays. The ionic flow melted some of my equipment.
    Might also have given me cancer... (1 Module Damaged)
  • A very small automated space station orbits here in the outer reaches of the system, probably dragged here by accident.
    No openings, but I was able to recover a small fuel tank. (Gain 30 Fuel)
  • A star probably could have been born there... A massive amount of hydrogen condensed into a little cloud so viscous it synthesized its own fuel.
    I stole as much as I could haul. (Gain 75 Fuel)
  • I heard a terrifying metallic thump outside my ship. But it turned out to be good news: it was a tank, drifting in space. Filled with fuel!
    I call it Providence. (Gain 50 Fuel)
  • Today I crossed the drifting body of an alien astronaut... some kind of octopus. Its helmet was broken but it had a couple of intact oxygen tanks.
    Tonight, I breathe to him! (Gain 10 Oxygen)
  • When I dropped out of light speed, I found myself directly on course for a small moon... and there was no way to change course fast enough...
    But I didn't hit it — I went right through it!
    It was a giant ball of liquid helium! I rocketed back around into its orbit and siphoned off more fuel than I could ever use...
    THAT was some good luck! (Gain 100 Fuel)
  • The moment I switched on the Space Folder, my ship was peppered by a micro-meteorite storm.
    I contained the leaks with a little tinkering, but I've lost a lot of fuel. (Lose 20 Fuel)
  • Thermal contractions and expansions have cracked the oxygen line. It took me a few long minutes to repair it, during which I was in a total panic. Now there's a big white cloud behind my ship... and not much left to breathe.
    Just another day in space. (Lose 20 Oxygen)
  • The gravitational waves in this area have played havoc on my equipment. I fiddled around and some of it is working again, but the rest is completely out of order.
    What a mess ... (2 Modules Damaged)
  • Okay. Okay. I only spotted the black hole at the very last moment, hidden in the outer edge of the star system. I went full throttle but it wasn’t enough. In the end, I had to eject quite a lot of tonnage to reach escape velocity...
    I don’t have much left now, but at least I'm alive. (Lose random number of 2 random resources)
  • I was struck by a flash of gamma rays that could kill even the hardiest astronaut. I smell like grilled meat but, somehow, I survived.
    Oh, and I think it erased a couple of computer entries. But since they are gone, I don’t know which ones. (Forget 1 Technology)
  • Iron termites (yes, I know how crazy that sounds) have dug holes all over the ship. I had to drown them in liquid nitrogen to get rid of them. A lot of devices are out of order. And one of them bit me. It was unpleasant.
    I hate everything. (1 Module Destroyed; 1 Module Damaged)
  • I saw a huge, grayish mass in space and feared trouble again... but it was actually a massive ball of ice! I thawed it out and filled my tanks with water and oxygen.
    Intergalactic ice-cream man, I don't know you, but I thank you! (Gain 100 Oxygen)
  • Did you know there are clouds in space? Gray clouds of dust. Green clouds of hydrogen. And violet ones made of I don't know what.
    And I'll never know, because I just got near one and was struck by a lightning bolt that fried one of my devices. (1 Module Damaged)
  • The last space-folding didn't go well. I got too close to a star.
    Now, the surface of a star is not that hot, around 5000° C. But just below, it goes up to 1 million!
    I made it out, but the photonic winds have badly scratched my ship. (Lose 15 Hull)
  • On my way to the next star-system, I received a very strange radio transmission. Hoping for the best, I changed my route to track it.
    Red herring. It was just an electromagnetic burst coming from a small and lost star. Hope is painful. (Lose 5 Fuel)
  • A stupid accident. My finger got caught between two pipes and it hurt a lot. To cope with the pain, I hit the wall with said pipe and I broke something.
    I. Am. Stupid. (1 Module Damaged)
  • I was fixing something outside when an asteroid slammed me away from the ship. They can be difficult to spot on the black backdrop of space.
    The good news is, it wasn't going too fast (two broken ribs — not that painful in zero-G). The bad news is, in order to save myself from being hurled away from the ship, I hooked myself onto it with a soldering iron.
    I’m alive... but there is now a hole in the hull. (Lose 15 Hull)
  • Meteoric rain fell on the ship like iron hail.
    I managed to divert my course in the nick of time and only lost a little fuel – nothing to worry about. (Lose 5 Fuel)
  • I have been sleeping... for a long time. The ship briefly fell into orbit around an electromagnetic anomaly that messed with the ship’s main computer and kept me in stasis a couple of days longer than expected.
    Well, at least I’ve had some rest! (Lose 10 Oxygen)
  • Photoelectric effect: a photon hits a metallic surface and thus liberates an electron.
    But when it's a blast of gamma rays from a powerful neutron star, the electric surge is so extreme that one of my devices is now a complete wreck. (1 Module Damaged)
  • I made an error while calculating the expected speed of the ship. This is upsetting... I had to use a lot of fuel to correct my approach angle.
    I need to focus more! (Lose 10 Fuel)
  • My path crossed a most curious comet, idling on a large orbit.
    A tiny ice-ball, seemingly waiting for me.
    It took me a while but I managed to fill up my tanks with water and oxygen. (Gain 100 Oxygen)
  • It's raining meteorites! The good news is, I’m still alive. One of my devices took the brunt of the damage.
    Bad news is the device was completely destroyed. (1 Module Damaged)
  • One of my devices was vibrating weirdly every time I turned it on... Assembled improperly, screwed-down badly, I don't know... it's hard to build clockwork quality equipment with nothing but random, drifting salvage.
    So it finally broke down. I need to fix it up. (1 Module Damaged)
  • Yet again, I miscalculated my velocity and came too close — way too close — to a star.
    No major damage but the sudden acceleration knocked me out. On the way down, my head hit something important. Nice. (1 Module Damaged)
  • A derelict spaceship, floating like the skeleton of a lonely space whale.
    I put my space suit on and went out to have a look at it. I salvaged a few fuel tanks. (Gain 40 Fuel)
  • Well, that was strange. I came across a hydrogen cloud — some kind of mini-star that never fully ignited.
    I gathered a lot of fuel before leaving it behind. (Gain 15 Fuel)
  • They preyed on me like a storm of micro-meteorites — a sort of space-faring race of nanobots that fed on the heat from my reactors.
    When they were done, they repaired a little bit of my hull. A thank-you, I guess? (Gain 20 Hull)
  • A huge and elongated manta ray, ten times the size of my ship. And hungry.
    I slammed my reactors into overdrive and jettisoned some fuel to hide my escape, like squids do on Earth.
    It worked. (Lose 20 Fuel)
  • What a strange little monster... some kind of long, iron worm embedded in the hull... I only found the little gremlin because I discovered a white cloud trailing behind me in space.
    Little bugger ate his way through an oxygen line. (Lose 20 Oxygen)
  • A space battle! Well, at least I think it was a battle... Hundreds of ships were towing asteroids and small moons and hurling them at other ships, smashing them into pieces! Not as precise as sci-fi lasers, but effective nonetheless! I hid in the rings of a nearby planet and waited for the battle to cool down.
    I spent a few days in the shadows salvaging what I could and fixing the hull. (Gain 50 Hull)
  • I was on this wonderful beach, on a planet inhabited by stunning women.
    Yes... it was just another dream. A dream that ended with a red alert and all my alarms blaring!
    I ran to the cockpit and saw that a comet field was fast approaching! I did my best to dodge them all while rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, but one of them slammed against the starboard quarter.
    The hull is still intact, but one of my devices got badly damaged. (1 Module Damaged)
  • An unusual phenomenon in this sector is contracting and dilating the space-time continuum at random. Around me, the stars and planets tear past me at incredible speeds. It’s bizarre... and beautiful.
    Also, I’m using a lot less fuel travelling here. (Gain 15 Fuel)
  • [If Emissary on board]: I’ve lost some resources... The alien who’s moved into my ship seems louder than ever. I wonder... I wonder if maybe he’s eaten them? (Lose 1-6 tons of 1 random resource)
  • [If Emissary on board]: Unbelievable! My traveling companion insists on fooling with the controls. The accident was bound to happen. He’s over there pouting in the corner now. But even worse, he damaged some of my equipment... (1 Module Damaged)
  • [If Emissary on board]: I tried having a talk with the alien. It was a fiasco... He got upset and started breaking stuff. I locked him up, and he went ballistic. I think he smashed everything to pieces. I guess I should be angry, but… he’s a lot like me. Lost. Far from home. I can’t be angry with him. (1 Module Damaged)
  • [If Emissary on board]: My alien passenger came into the cockpit. He wanted to show me something... something he had sensed. Then I saw it: an enormous door in the dark of Space. We went through it... where is it going to take us? (Warped... out there (up to 5 stars backwards or forwards))
  • [If Emissary on board]: The alien gives off a strong smell that reminds me of gas... I feel like I’m living with a giant cow. In a confined space. Finally, I realize that it’s methane – and methane means hydrogen. I’m going to manage to salvage a little ! Thank you, my little ET cow! (Gain 1-6 "Hydrogen")
  • [If Emissary on board]: My alien buddy worked on the inside of the wall today. He did a fantastic job! (Gain 10 Hull)
  • [If Emissary on board]: The alien talked for hours today... I was tired and didn’t understand any of it, but after a while I think caught on to one particular word. (Learn 1 Word)

Interactive Encounters[]

In some interactive encounters, new responses are unlocked based on the ship's installed modules and cargo. Those responses are identified below using the appropriate module or element symbol.

The rewards and losses provided here are the maximum possible values, but will be constrained in any given game based on the ship's current capacity and capabilities. For example, resource-based rewards cannot be given if the ship's cargo is completely full. Also note that in version 1 of the game, hull losses were reduced based on the ship's resistance level (shielding); in the omega edition, however, shielding has no impact on encounter-related damaged.

  • The worst situation that could possibly happen... has happened! I miscalculated my course and the Space Folder delivered me to the very surface of the star!
    The landscape is certainly beautiful, bathed in liquid fire as it is, but I've always felt Hell is best observed at a good distance. And at 5 000 degrees, which is very high already, my bulkheads rapidly begin to deteriorate. If I don't leave in moments, I will be baked to death.
    Problem is, the corona of a star is about 1 million degrees hotter than its surface, and I'll have to pass through it to escape...
    What should I do?
    • Fly away quickly! (Lose 10 Fuel + 30 Hull)
    • Activate the Space Folder (Lose 10 Fuel + 15 Hull; Warped... out there — 1-10 stars forwards)
    • "Thermal Resonance Generator" Use the Thermal Resonance Generator (Gain 10 "Helium"; Lose 15 Hull)
  • CRACK! — CRACK! — CRACK! Three dark crafts are hurling tiny steel balls at my ship and surrounding me like feral pack-hunters! I have no weapons to fight back... I have to escape somehow!
    I can hide either in the rings of a nearby gas planet, on a moon dotted with geysers, or I can fly straight towards the nearest star.
    And there's little time to think about it... I must act!
    • Hide in the rings (Nothing)
    • Head for the moon (Lose 20 Hull; Gain 10 Fuel)
    • "Thermal Resonance Generator" Fly to star (use Thermal Resonance Generator) (Learn 1 Technology)
  • The trip went well.
    Well, at least until I arrived and was blinded by a flash of cosmic rays! Just before everything went dim, I noticed that my ship was flying straight into an asteroid belt!
    What should I do?
    • "Gravitational Well Generator" Activate the Gravitational Well Generator (Nothing)
    • Jump to another system right now! (Warped... out there — 1-2 stars forwards)
    • Fly at random and pray (Lose 20 Hull)
  • I come across a huge abandoned metal city floating in space, with openings on every side. Each opening is so wide that a ship much larger than mine could pass within.
    In the middle of this deathly silent city floats a huge white ring. I see a space station hovering inside the ring. It's identical to the one I encountered at the beginning of my adventure.
    • Look for resources (Learn 1 Technology)
    • Fly into the ring (Warped... out there — to starting point)
    • Leave the city (Nothing)
    • "Interferometer" Activate the Interferometer (Warped... out there — 5-10 stars forwards)
  • In front of me there is a huge portal — a perfect ring floating in space. In the ring, a blue forcefield shines.
    The words JUDGES/ARCHITECTS TECHNOLOGY GIVE are written on the side.
  • I can't believe it! For the first time since arriving here, I detect an intelligent communication! I triangulate the source and locate a small space station, hidden in an asteroid field.
    The words don't make sense — they say something like STAR PEOPLE DEATH.
    Is it safe to explore?
    • Explore the station (Learn Ansible; Learn 1 Word)
    • Flee (Nothing)
    • "Ansible" Activate the Ansible (Learn 4 Words)
  • My sensors detect something floating in the star's upper atmosphere.
    A signal buoy? A space station that lost its orbit? What's puzzling is that it has a sort of net-shape...
    I could catch it by rocketing over the star's corona, but it wouldn't be without risk. The fire of a star is a deadly one.
    • Try to grab it (Learn Ultraprobe; Lose 15 Hull)
    • Give up (Nothing)
    • "Thermal Resonance Generator" Use Thermal Resonance Generator (Learn Ultraprobe)
  • I can't believe my eyes: out there, in space, floats a kind of... sculpture?!
    A gigantic stone bird of an odd, stylized design spreads its pitch-black wings in the night sky. The sculpture, more than a hundred times the size of my ship, rests on a small floating stone pedestal. Its head has been torn apart.
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Explore (Learn 2 Words)
    • "Gravitational Lens" Use the Gravitational Lens (Warped... out there — up to 15 stars backwards or forwards)
  • I have to think fast... the nearby star is on the verge of drowning the entire system in some kind of solar eruption! I can protect my ship either by hiding in the shadow of a small artificial moon or at the heart of a dense asteroid field.
    What should I do?
  • There's a pyramid here on a drifting asteroid. I land immediately and begin exploring it.
    Fascinating! This is some kind of library... Millions of tiny pyramids, carved with glyphs, all of which occasionally vibrate and sketch holographic images in the air.
    If I had a million years' time, I could learn an awful a lot in here.
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Study (Lose 10 Oxygen; Learn 1 Word)
    • "Shared Cryonics" Use Shared Cryonics (Learn 1 Technology; Learn 2 Words)
  • Fascinating...
    There is a space station hiding in a low orbit of this star. Somehow, it appears completely immune to the flares and stellar eruptions that wash over it. I'm quite tempted to explore the station but I'm not sure my ship would survive getting that close to the star...
  • There is a huge asteroid on the outer rim of this star system, too perfectly round to be natural. I fly closer to it and quickly discover that it's some kind of cage with barred windows. Inside, I see a giant creature with tentacles made of pure energy, like a living lightning bolt.
  • A huge cosmic beast is swimming through this star-system. It looks like a sleek shark, and it moves by gathering and ionizing hydrogen molecules before ejecting them through its "gills". Smaller versions of the creature swim at its side. I say smaller but they are still much bigger than my ship!
    • Leave (Lose 20 Hull)
    • Follow its course (Gain 100 Fuel)
    • Jettison some fuel (Lose 10 Fuel)
    • "Void Fluctuation Projector" Use the Void Fluctuation Projector (Learn 1 Technology)
  • I have discovered the drifting corpse of a dead ship, forgotten for centuries. I board it and explore with a small flashlight. I find the floating bodies of long-dead alien creatures, but they crumble to dust when I cast my flashlight beam over them... Horrifying... Horrifying...
    Suddenly, I hear a cracking sound ahead. I look down the corridor and see flashes of light!
  • The stars in this system seem to move on their own. But no... It's my ship that's moving! How is that possible!?
    After a quick scan, I discover that the main star of this system is abnormally dense; it creates massive, potentially deadly gravitational waves.
    • Flee (Lose 20 Fuel)
    • Wait and see (Lose 40 Hull)
    • "Gravitational Well Generator" Use the Gravitational Well Generator (Nothing)
  • An asteroid. A small moon, actually. Shiny. Like a diamond...
    Holy cow, it IS diamond!
    Great, but I don't have any use for diamonds right now. Attached to the moon is some kind of factory and mine. Two functional monitoring satellites orbit the facility and aim laser-cannons at anything that moves.
    This includes me.
  • An enormous tetrahedron floats here, in open space. Two of its faces portray star-systems, but I sense that they are perhaps windows into distant realms.
    The windows have some strange markings; one contains 5 groups of 5 dots while the other has 30 groups of 5 dots.
    • Pass through the '5' face (Warped... out there — up to 10 stars backwards or forwards)
    • Pass through the '30' face (Warped... out there — up to 15 stars backwards or forwards)
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • "Interferometer" Use the Interferometer (Gain 100 Fuel; Warped... out there — 5-10 stars forwards)
  • When I warp into this system, I am suddenly drawn by a powerful force into a mysterious pentagonal structure. Inside, everything is white. As my ship lays idle on the hard ground, I put on my space suit and wander aimlessly in the white interior of the structure. Suddenly, two pillars emerge from the ground.
    The one on the left bears the word LIFE; the one on the right, the word DEATH.
    What should I do ?
    • Touch the left column (Learn 1 Technology; Learn 2 Words)
    • Touch the right column (Forget all non-core Technologies)
    • "Tau Stasis" Activate Tau Stasis (Gain "Omega")
  • A derelict ship is orbiting the star of this system. It's enormous and vaguely bird-shaped, with its wings spread wide. The ship is very close to the star; attempting to board it may cause damage to my ship.
    On the craft's exterior, I see hastily scrawled words: JUDGES/ARCHITECTS GOD DEATH STAR.
    • Board the ship (Lose 15 Hull; Learn Death Seed; Learn 1 Word)
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • "Geo Scanner" Activate the Geo Scanner (Gain "Omega"; Learn Death Seed)
  • A huge space-rock is glittering under the rays of the nearby sun.
    A couple of colourful glints on the rock look quite promising. Unfortunately, I can see some sort of spider robots patrolling the surface.
    What should I do?
    • Land and take the rocks (Gain "Platinum" + "Thorium" + "Tungsten"; Lose 15 Hull)
    • Fly away (Nothing)
  • On the surface of of an ash-covered moon, I notice a sort of amphitheater, or maybe an arena, dug into the rocks.
    The atmosphere is gloomy.
    • Explore (Lose 2 Fuel; Learn 2 Words)
    • Fly away (Nothing)
  • My heart jumps in my chest when the words ME WANT ME STAR IRON appear on my screen.
    Then a choice appears: either GOOD or EVIL.
    What the..?
    • Choose the first option (Forget 2 Technologies; Learn 1 Word)
    • Choose the second option (Learn 1 Word)
    • "Ansible" Use the Ansible (Learn 1 Word)
  • There's a tiny moon here in orbit around a small planet.
    The moon's surface is perfectly flat, probably artificial. I land near the only identifiable construction, a crystal dome. The atmosphere is 20% oxygen and the temperature 20 degrees Celsius. I leave the ship without a space suit.
    It's unreal. The dome houses some kind of alien propulsion device. In the middle of it, a receptacle seems to be waiting for something. There are words etched beneath it: GIVE LIFE.
    • Leave (Gain "Iron"; Learn 1 Word)
    • Place my hand inside (Gain "Platinum"; Learn 1 Word)
    • "Iron" Put in some iron (Learn 1 Word; Lose "Iron")
  • A bubble as big as an asteroid is floating in space, dotted with shiny, blinking spots.
    Intriguing...
    • Ignore (Nothing)
    • Touch (Lose 30 Hull)
    • Wait and see (Lose 15 Hull)
    • "Geo Scanner" Use the Geo Scanner (Nothing)
  • What the...? An icosahedral ship just appeared directly in front of my ship.
    Blue words materialize in the space between us:
    IRON <=> THORIUM
    HYDROGEN <=> PLATINUM
    OXYGEN <=> COBALT
    Well, what am I supposed to do now?
    • "Iron" Eject a ton of iron (Lose "Iron"; Gain "Thorium"); response contains glyphs YOU FRIEND. YOU GIVE DEATH JUDGES/ARCHITECTS.
    • "Hydrogen" Eject a ton of hydrogen (Lose "Hydrogen"; Gain "Platinum"); response contains glyphs YOU FRIEND. YOU GIVE DEATH JUDGES/ARCHITECTS.
    • "Oxygen" Eject a ton of oxygen (Lose "Oxygen"; Gain "Cobalt"); response contains glyphs YOU FRIEND. YOU GIVE DEATH JUDGES/ARCHITECTS.
    • Stick out my tongue (Nothing)
  • I hover before a large shrine made of black stone. It's a giant empty cube with an opening on one side. For a moment, the vision of a giant bird-man comes to my mind. I don't understand...
    I land my ship in the cube, don my space suit, and disembark. The place is empty other than for a pillar that's my height with a sort of plate on top of it. I think it might be a button... but should I...?
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Push the button (Gain 100 Hull; Forget 1 Technology)
    • "Planetary Expander" Use the Planetary Expander (Gain "Omega")
  • A space station not unlike the one I explored at the beginning of my adventure, but it seems to have been shut down a long time ago... Asteroids have penetrated the structure and now float around the inactive cube. The only sign of activity is a faint blue light on some circuitry.
    I investigate closer and see that I can activate a circuit named TECHNOLOGY, another named OXYGEN, and another named STAR IRON.
    • Choose the first circuit (Learn 1 Technology; Learn 1 Word)
    • Choose the second circuit (Gain 100 Oxygen; Learn 1 Word)
    • Choose the third circuit (Learn 1 Word); response contains glyphs PEOPLE DEATH. GOD PEOPLE DEATH
  • Space unfolds... and I am no longer in space.
    I am inside a giant structure – huge, dark spaces and long tunnels, made of nothing and yet clearly... something.
    This kind of construction could explain the mysterious dark matter that our scientists are still trying to understand. I wander it aimlessly until I find a curious light. It blinks yellow and blue. Nearby, three large tunnels full of colored crystals yawn open... invitingly...
    • Take the yellow tunnel (Lose 20 Fuel)
    • Take the green tunnel (Nothing)
    • Take the white tunnel (Lose 20 Fuel)
  • I fly up to a strange structure made of stone and metal. It is covered with many ship-sized entrances.
    While considering my options, an invisible force suddenly grabs hold of the ship and draws me inside the structure, led by a mysterious blue light.
    I soon arrive at a junction and find my controls restored. There are four exits here: one marked with a O; the other, an I; another, a II; and the last one, a III.
    Which should I explore?
    • Go through exit O (Nothing)
    • Go through exit I (Warped... out there — up to 5 stars backwards or forwards)
    • Go through exit II (Warped... out there — up to 15 stars backwards or forwards)
    • Go through exit III (Warped... out there — up to 15 stars backwards or forwards)
  • The outer limits of this star system are bounded by giant gas clouds that block all sight. They seem to... move?! That's unusual...
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Explore (Gain 40 Fuel; Lose 20 Hull)
    • "Ultraprobe" Use the Ultraprobe (Gain 20 "Helium" + 20 "Hydrogen")
  • It's a space creature.
    Huge.
    Unknown.
    It looks like an octopus-plant, and it throws itself around entire asteroids. It's huge limbs crush the rock and pieces of it explode out in all directions. There it goes again, jumping on another rock.
    Should I try to catch some of the rocks? They're flying at a speed that will be difficult to match...
    • Catch the rocks (Gain "Hafnium"; Lose 15 Hull)
    • Fly away (Nothing)
  • A very small planet orbits this star. From here, I can see small lakes, a tiny sea and beautiful forests... That's too tempting! I land and activate my pumps to collect the oxygen. I walk in the grass... This could be a nice place to settle down.
    Not far from my ship, I see what looks like a huge metallic temple.
    • Explore (Gain 100 Oxygen; Learn Tau Stasis; Learn 1 Word); response contains glyphs STAR IRON
    • Ignore (Gain 100 Oxygen)
    • "Geo Scanner" Activate the Geo Scanner (Gain "Omega"; Learn Life Seed)
  • A huge construction is adrift on the outer rim of this star system: a long tube, large enough to pass a small moon, with a small control station floating in its center. I enter and determine that it's an artificial "planet" that somehow abandoned its orbit. Lakes, forests, and even gigantic animals are frozen inside the tube for eternity.
    It's beautiful. And it's terrifying.
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Land (Gain 100 Oxygen)
    • Explore the control station (Lose 10 Fuel + 15 Hull)
    • "Gravitational Lens" Use the Gravitational Lens (Gain 100 Oxygen; Learn 3 Words)
  • There is a long, thin, abandoned ship here.
    I board it and look around. The ship has a crystalline bay that is collecting the light from a nearby star. The light is refracted by the crystal and condensed into a single powerful ray that passes through a mysterious lens, clearly a marvel of technology. The words TECHNOLOGY JUDGES/ARCHITECTS are written below the lens.
    I am quite tempted to steal that lens, but I hesitate... the crystals are very delicately arranged; any blunder on my part could have devastating consequences.
  • A field of asteroids, and quite a dense one... If I fly in, I'm not sure I can escape unscathed. I wonder what's keeping all these rocks here...
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Explore (Lose 15 Hull; Gain 20 Oxygen + 20 Fuel)
    • "Supra-Conductor" Activate the Supra-Conductor (Gain 30 Oxygen + 30 Fuel)
  • Gas clouds, rainbow colored, are closing on my ship.
    In their haze, I see messages:
    ME LOVE
    YOU LOVE
    YOU WANT
    Then the words: TECHNOLOGY and HYDROGEN.
    Mmm... what should I do ?
    • Point to the word on the left (Learn 1 Technology; Learn 1 Word)
    • Point to the word on the right (Gain 20 "Hydrogen"; Learn 1 Word)
    • Wave in peace (Nothing)
    • "Gravitational Lens" Use the Gravitational Lens (Learn 1 Technology; Learn 2 Words; Gain "Omega")
  • Halfway from my destination, the Space Folder suddenly stops. The sensors have detected a hidden star system, home to a huge black hole. Its terrifying power has disabled the Space Folder; I try to reactivate it but nothing works! Meanwhile, asteroids, gas, and entire planets flow towards the huge black god at amazing speeds!
    Nearby, I spot a hollow spaceship drifting in the river of cosmic debris.
    • Flee (Lose 30 Fuel)
    • Dive into the black hole (Lose 35 Hull)
    • Explore the ship (Gain 30 Fuel)
    • "Gravitational Sails" Deploy the Gravitational Sails (Warped... out there — up to 5 stars backwards or forwards)
  • A massive artifact fills all visible space around me and eclipses the starfield. It's geometric, smooth — the work of an alien race of unmeasurable power and obscure intentions. It is spotted with countless large openings that seem to be silently waiting for me.
    • "Interferometer" Analyse with the Interferometer (Learn 1 Technology)
    • Ignore (Nothing)
  • This star is more than just a stellar body... It emits a huge luminous wave that quickly rolls towards me, and my screens flicker. What's happening?
    • "Telescope" Analyse with the Telescope (Nothing)
    • Approach the wave (Lose 60 Hull)
    • Hide behind an asteroid (Lose 15 Hull)
  • A strange blue-white electromagnetic phenomenon is moving in space before me, as if it were alive. It moves closer and touches my ship...
    Suddenly, the temperature inside the ship plummets and ice appears on the walls!
    Danger!
    • Fly away, full speed! (Lose 20 Fuel)
    • Put on a space suit (1 Module Damaged)
    • "Cryonics" Use Cryonics (Nothing)
  • I thought there was nothing here — or even worse, a black hole. The reality is different, impossible, and incredible: something enclosed the entire star system in a giant sphere made of black matter. I see nothing except a cube-shaped construction orbiting the stellar sphere.
    The word-glyph PLATINUM is shining blue upon it.
    • Touch the glyph (Warped... out there — 5-15 stars forwards)
    • "Platinum" Eject some platinum (Lose "Platinum"; Learn 1 Word); response contains glyph JUDGES/ARCHITECTS
    • Leave (Warped... out there — up to 2 stars backwards or forwards)
  • A weird crystal ship just appeared out of nowhere. It blinks, emits strange noises, and even tries to probe my mind. Finally, it sends me a sort of mental request: I see two spheres linked together, and each sphere has 8 small satellites.
    What does it want?
    • Give fuel (Lose 20 Fuel)
    • Give oxygen (Lose 20 Oxygen; Learn 1 Technology)
    • "Ansible" Use the Ansible (Learn 4 Words)
    • Leave (Nothing)
  • A simple cube-shaped space station fashioned of white plastic, drifting by. As I get closer my sensors detect a very powerful radioactive source, which could be deadly.
    Should I explore anyway?
    • "Supra-Conductor" Activate the Supra-Conductor (Gain 10 "Platinum" + 10 "Cobalt" + 10 "Thorium" + 10 "Gold" + 10 "Copper" + 20 "Iron")
    • Explore (Gain "Platinum" + "Thorium" + "Gold" + "Copper" + 20 "Iron"; 1 Module Damaged)
    • Leave (Nothing)
  • It's just a piece of a derelict alien ship drifting in space.
    There's almost nothing left, but I explore it anyway. I find one piece of equipment though, half broken, that I could take with me. It's linked to a screen located under an empty container. This screen displays the following words : GIVE IRON.
    What should I do?
    • Take the module (Learn Supra-Conductor; Learn 1 Word)
    • "Iron" Place some iron in the container (Gain 100 Hull; Learn 1 Word; Lose "Iron")
    • Leave (Nothing)
  • It was just a cute purple cloud. Well... it seemed cute from afar. Highly ionised, it completely fried my Space Folder.
    It's dense and it continues in all directions. What should I do?
  • On a low orbit close to the star I detect a kind of... let's call it a ruined shipyard.
    There must be some useful materials over there, but is it safe?
  • A strange black current roars over my ship — some kind of dark fog, nearly invisible. Is it the mysterious dark matter our scientists have eternally sought?
    The current has a strong magnetic pull; it spirals down towards the star of the system, taking me with it!
    • "Solar Sails" Deploy Solar Sails (Nothing)
    • Set the reactors to max power (Lose 20 Fuel)
    • Go with the flow (Lose 20 Hull; Warped... out there — up to 5 stars backwards or forwards)
  • My sensors reveal a large metallic object, drifting in space. I change course to intercept it.
    It's the remains of an enormous spaceship built by some unknown alien civilization.
    What ingenious minds could undertake such a colossal work?
  • Without warning, all my tools and the buckles fly through the air and stick to the wall. Through the observation bay, I spot a small pitch-black asteroid
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Mine it (Lose 10 Fuel; Gain 20 "Iron")
    • "Geo Scanner" Use the Geo Scanner (Gain "Omega")
  • There is a huge metal cube here, floating in space. In its centre, I see a square-shaped opening with these words written above: GIVE LIFE STAR IRON.
    The opening glows bright yellow, not unlike a hellish furnace.
    • Enter (Gain 100 Hull)
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • "Planetary Expander" Drill with Planetary Expander (Gain "Omega" + 20 "Iron")
  • A planet orbits here. Or at least something the size of a planet. I observe the huge structure and discover that it's made of two pyramids attached at their base. A colossal shape drifting in the cosmos...
    As I approach, I notice that asteroids and ship debris are orbiting the structure, attracted by some mysterious force.
    • Ignore (Nothing)
    • Approach (Lose random number of 1 random resource)
    • "Ultraprobe" Deploy the Ultraprobe (Gain "Omega")
  • What the?! — My Space Folder warped me to the right star-system, but at the heart of a minefield!
    I see two of the mines crash into each other and explode! The mines transmit this message: GIVE DEATH JUDGES/ARCHITECTS.
    What should I do?
    • Jump to another system (Warped... out there — 1-2 stars forwards)
    • Fly through the mines (Lose 30 Hull)
    • "Shield Generator" Activate Shield Generator (Nothing)
  • It's hard to believe, but a huge black 'river' is flowing along the edge of this star-system.
    Is it made of the mysterious dark matter that our scientists have long searched for? Its black flow is dragging along with it hydrogen, asteroids, moons and even entire planets!
    I am quite tempted to explore... but is it safe?
    • Dive into the dark flow (Warped... out there — up to 5 stars backwards or forwards)
    • Fly away (Nothing)
  • As soon as my ship warps into the star system, ten huge flame trails lash and bounce across my hull.
    Comets !
    A huge field of them are travelling here at great speed, tearing at the darkness of the cosmos with shiny blue and gold hues, fluttering in the gravitational waves.
    • Try to catch them (Gain 10 Oxygen; Gain "Iron"; Lose 10 Fuel)
    • Ignore (Nothing)
    • "Ultraprobe" Activate Ultraprobe (Gain 50 Oxygen; Gain "Hafnium" + "Thorium")
    • "Drill" Mine the comets (Gain 25 Oxygen; Gain "Thorium"; Lose 10 Fuel)
  • Hidden in the shadow of a nearby asteroid belt, I see something frightening:
    A horde of small, asymmetrical ships dive onto a larger vessel and pierce it with stone missiles. The prey is peppered with explosions and the attacking ships angle away, preparing for another run.
    I could try to explore the disabled ship before the attackers return...
  • There's a strange planet here: a gas giant shining from the inside like a mini-sun.
    From my orbit, I can't see anything but light. What could it be?
    • Ignore (Nothing)
    • "Ultraprobe" Activate Ultraprobe (Gain 10 "Cobalt")
    • Land (Lose 15 Hull)
  • I can't believe my eyes! There's something here that appears to disprove all known scientific theory: a naked singularity!
    Space and time seem to bend together endlessly, like a black hole. But, unlike a black hole, this phenomenon is visible and plunges deep into itself, creating a vast, bright tunnel!
    If I enter it, I could travel a great distance... but would it be safe?
    • Go for it! (Warped... out there — 1-15 stars forwards)
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • "Ultraprobe" Use the Ultraprobe (Gain "Omega")
  • I come upon a small icy moon with an atmosphere. There's something else here though... I feel like the moon is calling me.
    I land safely on the cold, white surface. The ground is covered with soft, virgin-white grass. There are no hills; everything is flat; it is utterly lifeless.
    Or rather, I don't see any life. Maybe something is here, only invisible...
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Explore (Gain 10 Oxygen)
    • "Drill" Drill (Drill Damaged)
  • I let my mind wander as the Space Folder cools down... and then something moves in the shadows of the cockpit!
    There's something WEIRD here: a mechanical centipede, sitting on the dashboard — and it's looking at me!
    It suddenly scurries away and I follow it quickly. It stops and sniffs at my equipment... and then it starts taking it apart!
    • Chase it away (Lose 15 Hull)
    • Let it be (2 Modules Damaged; Learn 1 Technology)
    • "Omega" Feed with Omega (Learn 2 Technologies; Should lose "Omega", but bugged)
  • What a surprise! Orbiting around the star is a strange little device, small as a satellite, open like a golden flower and facing the fires of the sun. The petals of the little satellite are constructed of pure gold...
    It looks inactive, but I am still a few million miles away from it.
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Salvage the gold (Gain "Gold")
    • Study the device (Learn Geo Scanner)
    • "Interferometer" Use Interferometer (Learn Solar Sails)
  • There is something very unusual about the star in this system: it has a jet-black core, hidden under the solar flares and torrential fire-storms. Stranger even, in the ecliptic plane, a large dark opening leads inside.
    This could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Could also be a one-way trip.
    • "Interferometer" Activate the Interferometer (Nothing)
    • Fly away (Nothing)
    • Pass through the opening (Lose 30 Hull; Gain 10 "Oxygen" + 20 "Helium" + "Thorium")
  • A planet split in two from an ecological disaster... or maybe something worse. Orbiting this ruined world is a huge, hollow, spherical craft.
    On its hull I discern the words: FEAR JUDGES/ARCHITECTS.
    What should I do?
  • I am no longer in outer space.
    I am in a huge, luminous place. My sensors tell me nothing... I don't understand what is happening.
    A black disk materializes before me. It fades away, and is replaced by the number 3, then 5, 7, 11... and then nothing.
    I feel as though something — or someone — now waits for my response.
    • Answer 15, 19 and 23 (Lose 15 Hull + 15 Fuel + 15 Oxygen)
    • Answer 13, 17 and 19 (Gain 10 Hull + 10 Fuel + 10 Oxygen)
    • Wait and see (Nothing)
    • "Life Seed" Life Seed (Gain "Omega")
  • A funny little probe with two streamlined wings flies around my ship.
    The word JUDGES/ARCHITECTS is written on it. It's black and round. It stops before my ship and blinks.
    I feel... scanned.
    • Go out and dismantle it (Learn Geo Scanner; Lose 15 Hull)
    • Wait (Gain 100 Oxygen); response contains glyphs CARBON OXYGEN IRON. PEOPLE DEATH.
    • Leave (Lose 15 Hull)
  • Damnation! The Space Folder seems to be broken... it just won't stop! I'm trapped in a one-dimensional plane where my ships slides between two stars. To the bow of the ship, I see a strange blinking light...
    What should I do now?
    • Break Space Folder (Destroy Space Folder)
    • Wait and See (Lose 50 Fuel)
    • Contact the light (Nothing)
    • "Subspace Reactor" Activate the Subspace Reactor (Learn 1 Word)
  • Am I dreaming?
    At the heart of an asteroid field, I spot a light pulsing gently. A hidden space station? The field is quite dense... heading in with my ship would be very risky. I could go in alone with my suit but that's no less dangerous.
    • "Oxygen" Enter with the space suit (Lose "Oxygen")
    • Fly in with the ship (Lose 15 Hull)
    • Leave (Nothing)
  • The starfield did look a little odd... but when my engines suddenly shut down, I knew I was in trouble.
    I'm in a big cloud, liquid and transparent. I analyze it: it's pure alcohol! Ethyl formate to be exact, an organic ester that smells like rum.
    I fill some sample tubes with it while considering how to escape this situation...
    • Power the engines (Lose 40 Hull)
    • Jettison some cargo (Lose random number of 2 random resources)
    • "Solar Sails" Activate the Solar Sails (Nothing)
  • Something has crashed onto the observation bay window! A purple and blue object, growing very fast, looking like... a plant!
    It spreads quickly across the entire ship and the internal temperature starts to plummet! It's absorbing my heat!
    Before I freeze to death, I leap into my space suit and quickly consider my options.
    • Fly towards the nearest star (Lose 5 Fuel + 15 Hull)
    • Go out in space to kill it (Lose 15 Hull)
    • "Void Fluctuation Projector" Use the Void Fluctuation Projector (Nothing)
  • Something is flying alongside me at high speed, like a golden shooting star in the void. Is it a ship? A life form? Something that will try to kill me?
    Well, if I want to see, I'll have to push my engines to the max.
    • Try to catch it (Lose 20 Fuel; Learn Solar Sails)
    • Let it go (Nothing)
    • "Ultraprobe" Activate the Ultraprobe (Learn Solar Sails)
  • I've discovered a small rogue planet of an unusual color: light brown.
    I assumed it must be composed of some rare material, or maybe is was some kind of man-made vessel. I landed on the surface and activated sensors. Still nothing, so I put my space suit on and went outside.... and was immediately glued to the ground!
    The material was definitely carbon and water but, under the action of the nearby star, the entire planet had been cooked into... caramel!
    I turned and saw my ship was starting to sink! I cut off a big piece of the weird substance and headed back on board, smearing caramel everywhere.
    I must act quickly, before the planet swallows my ship whole!
    • Wait and See (Nothing)
    • "Planetary Expander" Activate the Planetary Expander (Drill Damaged; Gain 10 "Carbon")
    • Take off at full power! (Lose 10 Fuel + 15 Hull)
  • It's a cube.
    Floating in space.
    It looks like the cube that was inside the space station that saved me at the beginning of my adventure. But, there's just the cube here, and the cube looks dead. The words STAR IRON TECHNOLOGY are written on it.
    What should I do?
  • There is a strange construction hidden in the outer reaches of this star system: a round frame orbiting a silver vortex. I sense the words "Judge Architect" resonating in my mind. I have no clue as to what it means.
    What should I do?
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Approach the vortex (Forget 1 Technology; Learn 1 Technology)
    • Salvage it for resources (Gain "Iron")
    • "Supra-Conductor" Use the Supra-Conductor (Learn 2 Technologies)
  • There's a ship here, slowly falling into pieces.
    Flames and lightning run over and into its structure. I put on my space suit and start exploring. Inside, everything is broken, useless. Computers have been burnt by some energy blast... A kind of big amoeba approaches slowly... weakly.
    It buzzes in my radio com: JUDGES/ARCHITECTS GIVE DEATH ME. YOU GIVE DEATH JUDGES/ARCHITECTS.
    • Approve (Learn 1 Technology; Learn 1 Word)
    • Refuse (Lose 15 Hull)
    • Say nothing (Nothing)
  • I suddenly find myself in front of a planet in the throes of chaos. The ground is shaking and forming huge cracks that can be seen from space. The inhabitants flee in all directions in thousands of spaceships. I feel tiny and ignored before this unfolding cataclysmic disaster.
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Land (Gain 100 Oxygen; Lose 50 Hull; Learn 1 Technology)
    • "Ansible" Activate Ansible (Learn 1 Word; Warped... out there — 3-10 stars forwards)
  • A celestial body orbits slowly; strangely, I find it hard to comprehend its shape, as if it were covered in blind spots.
    It spins and dances like a wild animal, and I suddenly feel like vulnerable prey.
    • Flee (Lose 15 Fuel)
    • Wait (Nothing)
    • "Ansible" Broadcast greeting (Learn 1 Technology; Learn 1 Word)
  • I wake up to a huge purple praying mantis perched on my nose.
    I fly out of bed and slam my head into the ceiling. I curse and howl in pain and then go hunting for the beast.
    I finally spot it hiding under the ship computers. Oh no... there's a whole colony of these pests, and they're chewing on my cabling!
    Aren't cosmic rays and black holes enough? What am I going to do with these things?
    • Use the soldering iron (Forget 1 Technology)
    • "Oxygen" Use liquid oxygen (Lose "Oxygen")
  • I have discovered a station orbiting dangerously close to the sun. It is very old, but full of advanced technologies. Looks like its' prime purpose is to extract the energy from the star. The station's hangars are spacious, the atmosphere is rich in carbon dioxide, but poor in oxygen, so, if I want to explore, I'll have to carry an oxygen bottle with me.
    Large polished mirrors are floating around, held by invisible supporters. They concentrate the solar energy, directing it to a strange mechanism with blinking HYDROGEN, OXYGEN and CARBON indicators. The last symbol flashes in blue, then in green.
    • Break the mechanism (Lose 20 Hull; Gain "Omega")
    • Examine the machine (Nothing)
    • "Hydrogen" Load hydrogen (Lose "Hydrogen")
    • "Oxygen" Load oxygen (Lose "Oxygen")
    • "Carbon" Load carbon (Lose "Carbon"; Gain "Omega")
    • Leave (Nothing)
  • This rocky planet has only one side exposed to the sun, thus giving birth to strangest life forms. While on orbit, I saw a continent of green and blue grass. I start descending, slowly, near a hill that might contain useful resources.
    I land. There is an oxygen in the atmosphere, not much, but I still activate the pumps.
    I go outside. The air is rare but pressure is high. I make several steps on the grass. It moves. Oh. I realize that this "grass" is actually millions of tiny creatures trying to escape my steps... with my ship and my boots here I must have already destroyed millions of them!
    Well... If I want to get to mineral deposits that I have noticed earlier, I must advance further.
    • Return to the ship and leave (Nothing)
    • Move on to gather minerals (Gain "Platinum" + "Hafnium" + "Tungsten")
  • Good news! Well, sort of... A "Cube" station drifts nearby. Its eccentric orbit will soon take it outside this solar system.
    It is in a sorry state... I approach it and see that something must have smashed into it, completely depriving it of energy.
    This Cube is not working. But then again, when else will I get the chance to rummage through completely dead Cube? I'm certain that there are lots of useful things here.
    • Plug in a computer (Learn 3 Words)
    • Break it open (Nothing)
    • "Omega" Fuel it with omega element (Gain 100 Fuel + 100 Oxygen + 100 Hull)
  • My electromagnetic sensors have gone crazy... I got a message from an object close to the star... Well, sort of - characters and words are beyond my recognition... I can't understand a thing.
    But when I approach the star, I realize the full scale of this tragedy: the station lost its orbit and is about to fall into the burning sun. It will only take a few days for the sun to completely devour it.
    I see no way out... Hmm... What shall I do?
    • Put the station into a new orbit (Lose 20 Fuel; Learn 1 Technology)
    • Abandon it (Nothing)
    • Push the station towards the star (Gain "Iron" + "Tungsten" + "Platinum")
    • "Death Seed" Suppress the star's activity (Learn 1 Technology)
  • On a planet moving along an eccentric orbit through the Oort cloud, I discovered a... yep, that's a building. It dates back to the time when this planet was closer to the star.
    I landed. The atmosphere is rare, but I can safely leave the ship with only a breathing mask on my face.
    The building is actually a pyramidal temple with sculptures resembling worms, or intestines... In its only room, rather spacious, I find an enormous chalice full of some violet-blue liquid.
    • Drink the liquid (Nothing)
    • Spray some liquid over the ship's hull (Gain 50 Hull)
    • "Geo Scanner" Scan it (Gain "Omega")
    • Do nothing (Nothing)
  • I have surveyed the discovered system and noticed a small moon, looking suspiciously dull at the first glance. In fact it's all about its terrain. How extraordinary...
    I reposition my ship a bit closer and realize that the moon is all shining. And I see... But how? That's impossible!
    There is a human face on the moon. And this face... is mine.
    The words appear beneath it: YOU DEATH ?
    • Agree (Nothing)
    • Disagree (Gain 100 Oxygen)
    • Activate the drill (Gain "Omega") [option available even if drill is not installed]
  • Enormous aurora borealis enwraps the system like a belt. And…it sings! There is something strange and hypnotising about this song. I fall under its control. I turn my ship towards the aurora and start the engines… My hands are out of control! What's coming next?..
    • Let go (Lose 1-3 tons of 3 random resources)
    • Get hurt (Lose 5 Fuel)
    • "Void Fluctuation Projector" Activate the shield (Nothing)
  • My spacefolder teleports me right to a curious sight: two large space butterfly-like creatures try to approach one another.
    Violent solar bursts force one of them to retreat... and it is about to be lost in infinity. Both of them are transparent, glowing with ghostly pulsating light.
    • Pierce one of the creatures (Gain 10 "Hydrogen" + "Oxygen"; Forget 1 Technology)
    • Try to connect them (Lose 20 Fuel; Gain "Omega")
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • "Gravitational Well Generator" Create a gravitational well (Gain "Omega")
  • On a small planet orbiting the star, I discovered some…breathtaking place. Just like the Earth's Caribbean islands. I landed in a peaceful coastal jungle and went for a walk on the white sand. I fell asleep on the beach, cradled by the soft murmur of the backwash and dreamed of the good old Earth. Life is beautiful here!
    I might…
    • Settle here (Gain 100 Oxygen; Lose 30 Hull)
    • Leave (Gain 100 Oxygen)
    • "Omega" Trigger the Omega reaction (Learn Life Seed; Gain 100 Oxygen)
  • This ships - are they fighting? I'm in the middle of space battle! Unbelievable... In the distance, I see a large ship resembling a bird with its wings spread out. It emits beams of bright light, very intense, similar to supernova explosions. A fleet of red and ocherish silvery ships is coming towards me. If these beams hit me, I'm a goner...
    • Run away (Lose 5 Hull; Interplanetary Reactor Damaged)
    • "Space Folder" Activate the spacefolder (Warped... out there — 2 stars forwards)
    • Approach the ships (Gain 20 Hull + 20 Fuel; Gain 20 "Iron")
  • This off-orbit grey planet with inclusions of violet is cold and rocky.
    Human-size constructions... houses carved in the rock, occasional tissue scraps waving in a precious oxygen breeze (I should refill my reserves). It all looks oddly familiar…
    And then I see, a temple carved in the rock... my god... these columns are so familiar… It looks fragile..
    • Inspect the temple exterior (Gain 2 Oxygen; Learn Wormhole Generator)
    • Inspect the temple interior (Gain 2 Oxygen; Learn 2 Words)
    • "Gravitational Lens" Explore the village (Gain 100 Oxygen + 100 Fuel)
  • I land on a planet with no atmosphere and discover a ship half-buried in the sand.
    I leave my ship and space-walk over to it, noting the deathly silence all around. I enter through a huge fissure in the hull. Everything inside is in ruins, and starlight blinks through numerous cracks.
    A flash catches my eye and I look up. I see... oh my god... a meteor shower about to assault the planet!
    I don't have much time...
    • Explore the bow (Lose 15 Hull)
    • Explore the stern (Learn Tau Stasis; Lose 15 Hull)
    • Leave immediately (Nothing)
    • "Geo Scanner" Use the Geo Scanner (Learn Tau Stasis; Gain "Omega")
  • I have just landed on a small and quite pleasant planet. The trees here are huge, and their intertwined roots cover the soil like a labyrinth. They vibrate in time with my steps like if they were alive..
    The oxygen... it feels so good to walk around without a helmet. Large and fragrant purple fruits are so tempting to taste, but I don't want to risk my life.
    Suddenly I hear a cracking noise from where I came... and see the beach... and a woman's silhouette. Just like in movies of the fifties, featuring pretty women inhabiting exotic planets.
    • Meet the woman (Lose 15 Hull; Gain 20 Oxygen)
    • Return to the ship (Gain 20 Oxygen)
  • This is prodigious and unbelievable... a magnificent star-shaped space station floats in vacuum, hundreds of its' shafts branch out in all directions. It even has a dock, suitable for ships much larger than mine, so I land there.
    The atmosphere is breathable... not only by giants, who have constructed this wondrous place.
    From the inside I see that each shaft is pointing at specific solar system, and all of them are linked to a complex machine.
    • Examine the machine (Learn Gravitational Lens)
    • Break the machine (Gain "Omega")
    • Start the machine (Warped... out there — 10 stars forwards)
  • A ray emitted by a faraway star hits the sun and appears to drain its energy. I see alien spaceships scatter in all directions, leaving the dying planet. A hopeless exodus…
    Last ship stops its movement in the planet's elevated orbit... simply out of fuel.
    It floats in vacuum, powerless like a fish thrown out of water.
    • Giving him fuel (Lose 30 Fuel)
    • Rob him (Gain 100 Oxygen)
    • "Interferometer" Seek help (Gain 50 Fuel + 50 Oxygen)
  • I woke up with a terrible hangover, which is quite unfair since I did not drink anything alcoholic for quite a long time… Then came the shock - brutal and terrifying: I am no longer in my body, drifting in space like some restless spirit!
    In the distance, I saw (and the vision was perfectly clear) that my ship was imprisoned in some kind of crystal, with... my inert body behind the controls. What happened?.. an accident?
    • Return to the ship (Lose 5 Oxygen + 5 Fuel)
    • Explore space (Lose 5 Oxygen + 15 Fuel)
    • "Ansible" Activate the Ansible (Nothing)
  • I land on a small planet, hoping to find life there, but... pfff... its atmosphere is almost entirely methanoic... Low gravity has an interesting effect on local trees: they spindle kilometres up into the sky.
    Amidst the trees some gaseous creatures are floating placidly. They may have hydrogen, or even helium inside!.. What if I… ?...
    • Try to capture a creature (Lose 10 Hull; Gain 10 "Helium")
    • Leave this place (Nothing)
    • "Ultraprobe" Activate the ultraprobe (Gain 40 "Helium")
  • A fascinating, mesmerizing spectacle: a metallic flower repeatedly folds and unfolds its fractal petals; from a distance, I can see the petals separate into millions of smaller petals. I think if I get closer, I'll see these millions of other petals divide into millions more.
    At its core, I see carcasses of empty spaceships. The flower seems to slowly digest them.
    • Examine the ships (Lose 10 Fuel + 30 Hull)
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • "Ultraprobe" Activate the ultraprobe (Gain "Omega"; Ultraprobe Damaged)
  • My basic sensors detect an abnormal spectrum on a nearby small blue-pitched dark grey planet.
    I land. There is no atmosphere, so I put on my space suit. The gravity is heavy, and... my feet feel cold. Hmm... I put my hand on the ground. This planet is not just a simple block of ice - it actively absorbs the heat and energy!
    Cracks start to develop at the base of my ship's hull... Hmm... the situation turns hostile.
    • Take off without delay (Lose 20 Fuel + 10 Hull)
    • Start drilling (Nothing)
    • "Thermal Resonance Generator" Activate the thermal shield (Gain "Carbon" + "Gold" + "Oxygen")
  • I am on a distant orbit around a double planet. I hide behind the one that is smaller - almost an asteroid, and observe the other with my telescope.
    It is inhabited: large termites living in rectangular burrows. An ocherish red ship lies in ambush nearby, shooting at them. They are scared, I see them offering sacrifices and gifts to this terrifying deity.
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Destroy the enemy ship (Lose 15 Hull; Gain 10 "Iron" + "Gold" + "Carbon" + "Platinum")
    • Scare the rest of natives (Lose 10 Fuel)
  • I fly over the surface of the planet with a very shallow atmosphere, hoping to find someone or something that can help me... The planet's surface suddenly trembles, and an immense pyramidal creature appears before me, obstructing the nearest star with the size of its body!
    Huge eye of this creature cracks open and looks at me. Its immense tentacle grabs my ship. I'm busted... The creature, however is not trying to crush or eat me... it examines me.
    • Be friendly (Nothing)
    • Drill into the tentacle (Lose 20 Hull)
    • "Ansible" Activate the Ansible (Gain "Omega")
  • For a few hours already I am trying to find my way through the debris, left after the planetary explosion. There, I keep my way through high buildings created by unknown race, floating here and there in vacuum and, henceforth, deserted.
    I land on the edge of this floating dead city; a familiar symbol attracts my attention: its a hangar or bunker, bearing the Omega symbol.
    I see a huge metallic spider, sitting on its roof, embracing the hangar with its legs. It sits there, motionless. Asleep... or dead?
    • Explore the hangar (Lose 25 Hull)
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • "Planetary Expander" Activate the planetary extension drill (Gain "Omega")
  • A space station fit for an average human being (still huge, nevertheless), circles around the star at a very low orbit. The star is fluctuating spasmodically, giving rise to solar eruptions as spectacular as dangerous.
    Outer walls of the station's deck overlooking the star are transparent. The view outside is magnificent.
    Inside, a curious device is installed pointing at the raging sun, its purpose seems vague. My arrival ruins the delicately adjusted balance of gravity. I will most certainly be blown to pieces in the imminent explosion!
    I suspect that this device is here for a reason - maybe it can help me?
    • Activate it (Nothing)
    • Examine it (Learn Death Seed; Lose 20 Hull)
    • Break it (Gain "Omega"; Lose 20 Hull)
    • Get away… and fast! (Nothing)
  • I pass by an asteroid. An artificial asteroid. It is made of rectangular blocks, shaped, sculpted and laid out in different intricate ways. Like a city of skyscrapers rising in all directions.
    I wonder what is in it for me?
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Drill (Lose 15 Fuel; Gain "Tungsten" + "Platinum" + "Iron")
    • Search for an entrance (Learn 1 Technology)
  • Tremendous irradiant entities seized my ship immediately after I emerged from hyperspace. They released me into another sector of the solar system, full of immense oblong, shark-like creatures. They noticed me… and rushed towards my ship!
    • Run away (Lose 25 Fuel)
    • Leave for another solar system (Warped... out there — 1 star forwards)
    • "Thermal Resonance Generator" Plunge towards the star (Gain "Omega")
  • This is a small planet. Its atmosphere is oversaturated with carbon dioxide. Still, I start the oxygen pumps to gather some oxygen, however small the gathered amount may be. Surface of the planet is all covered in gigantic lianas, so I decided to put on my space suit and go exploring to get a little exercise.
    Unbelievable... beneath the lianas, I found a stone dome sheltering a model of the city. It is quite dark here… but I am afraid that the light may ruin it all.
    • Do nothing (Gain 10 Oxygen)
    • Take a photo (flash) (Gain 5 Oxygen; Learn 1 Technology)
    • "Planetary Expander" Reinforce the dome (Gain 10 Oxygen; Learn 2 Technologies)
  • So, here is a white plastic sphere, it has a strange symbol, resembling a black bird, with its wings spread out. This sphere floats in space, and it is a lot smaller than my ship… It has an opening, but it is securely shut. I wonder what's inside?
    • Pull the sphere towards the star (Lose 5 Fuel)
    • Throw it into a gaseous planet (Gain "Helium" + "Iron" + "Oxygen" + "Hafnium")
    • Do nothing (Nothing)
    • "Planetary Expander" Pierce it with the planetary extension of my drill. (Gain "Omega")
  • I thought that this is a space station, but in fact, this is a ship - a ship with its bird-style wings spread out and facing towards the sun.
    It is huge. I land my ship in an inner hangar. It appears to have been empty... for centuries.
    There is nothing here besides a relatively small (twice my ship) mechanism in the ship's central part. It emits some ray towards the star.
    • Examine the mechanism (Learn Death Seed)
    • Break the mechanism (Gain "Omega"; Lose 20 Hull)
    • Leave (Nothing)
  • Something must have happened during my last jump... I don't feel like I'm in cosmic space anymore.
    Beneath my ship, I see an infinitely bright, flat and smooth surface stretching endlessly in all directions. Above me I see no stars, no light - nothing. It's an absolute darkness. Hey! What's that?..
    • Come down on the shining surface (Lose 50 Hull + 10 Fuel)
    • Retreat into the darkness (Lose 10 Hull + 5 Fuel)
    • "Interferometer" Analyse it with the interferometer (Nothing)
  • I thought I was alone here.
    But in a moment, several ghostlike, iridescent creatures appeared out of deep space, encloaking my ship. I see gigantic eyes form within their structure - they throw a brief look at me and disappear.
    These creatures emit electromagnetic vibrations... I read their frequency on my sensors: 261.3 Hz, 329.63Hz, then follows the silence. Then they repeat, followed by silence again.
    What shall I do?
    • Answer on a frequency of 590.93 Hz (Nothing)
    • Answer on a frequency of 392.00 Hz (Gain 20 Fuel + 20 Oxygen + 20 Hull)
    • Answer on a frequency of 293.66 Hz (Forget 1 Technology)
    • Wait (Nothing)
  • Ah, what a beautiful planet! Savannah grasses caressed by the wind which... Good grief!!! An enormous hairy beast, a ten-armed gorilla as big as a house, runs like hell towards me! I'd better get back to my ship!
    The creature grasps my ship and effortlessly lifts it up... Oh god! It snaps-off the nose of my ship like if it was peeling a gigantic banana, and starts chewing it!!! It's going to be hard to reach controls in this position...
    • Take off and leave (Lose 25 Hull + 5 Fuel)
    • "Iron" Drop some iron (Lose 5 Hull; Lose "Iron")
    • "Gravitational Well Generator" Make a gravitational well (Nothing)
  • I rush into the system at full speed, and as usual - nothing ever goes the way you want - a comet is right on my way! We're going to crash!
    I am on red alert, but then I notice something unusual about this comet... it is white, spectral... ethereal?.. how is that possible?
    • Rev up the engines and change flight direction (Lose 25 Fuel)
    • Prepare to crash (Forget 1 Technology)
    • "Void Fluctuation Projector" Activate the void fluctuation projector (Nothing)
  • So... Hmm... I am landing on a sandy planet, in the centre of the crater, where I have detected deposits of mineral resources. When I landed, I learned that this was not a crater, but a town belonging to a race of intelligent centipedes (capable to live in vacuum, most certainly) and I have nearly destroyed it.
    From inside my ship, I see them fussing about, shaking small spears and dragging small catapults towards me. If only I knew, I would never have destroyed their town, but how do I tell them?
    • "Iron" Offer help in reconstruction (Lose "Iron"; Learn 1 Word)
    • Leave (Lose 5 Hull)
    • Pillage the destroyed town (Lose 10 Hull; Gain 10 "Gold" + 10 "Iron" + 10 "Thorium")
    • "Omega" Repair the town with Omega (Lose "Omega"; Learn 1 Technology)
  • A large silvery flower is facing the sun. That's a space station, and it's on fire! Red and ocherish silvery ships project meteorites at the station to destroy it.
    Escape capsules try to get away: some are successful, but many of them are intercepted and destroyed. I hide in an asteroid field nearby - a silent witness of the drama. One of the capsules couldn't make it - now it tries to hide behind the station.
    • Wait for the end of the battle (Gain "Iron" + "Gold")
    • Try to save the capsule (Gain "Omega"; Lose 20 Hull)
    • Fly away (Nothing)
    • "Death Seed" Create a localized black hole (Gain "Omega")
  • It is a giant monster, an octopus with millions of iridescent tentacles who is slowly drifting in space. I was terrified at first, but then noticed that the beast is dying: a large spear, weapon of its unimaginable enemy, pierced the body of the creature and pinned it to a floating asteroid.
    I hear strange words in my head: YOU GIVE'DEATH ME' / ME GIVE YOU TECHNOLOGY
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Press on the spear (Learn 1 Technology)
    • "Ansible" Activate the Ansible (Should gain "Omega", but bugged)
  • I tread carefully in an asteroid field, looking for mineral resources.
    Suddenly, a savage pack of spider-like creatures as big as my ship emerges from the shadows; they grab and throw my ship to one another. Their grasp is firm and I dare not start the engines, for fear of crashing into an asteroid…
    They bring me to a large asteroid at the flat surface of which I see some kind of a building - a temple? - with its columns pointing at a distant star. In fact, this structure looks more like a catapult... Are they going to launch me into their sun? Is it a sacrifice?..
    • Start the engines at full capacity (Lose 25 Fuel)
    • Do nothing, then change the trajectory (Lose 25 Hull)
    • "Thermal Resonance Generator" Do nothing (Nothing)
  • I see a completely cubic ship, its cubic reactors slowly move it through space. I dock to see if I can find something of value... and see a square lid open. I cant resist such invitation go inside.
    Wow! An alien! It looks like a large violet cube, its small arms are fiddling with small buttons of a square control board. His twelve (square) eyes form... a square on one of its "sides". In my mind I hear: YOU GIVE LIFE
    • Vague approval (Learn 1 Technology)
    • Vague disapproval (Nothing)
    • Run away (Nothing)
  • Incredible... in the upper turbulent layers of the gas giants' atmosphere I see a metallic platform... It looks like a take-off deck. I land there, fighting the terrible winds.
    Creatures looking like coloured whirlwinds approach me and speak through my computer:
    ME MURMUREURS
    ME GIVE TECHNOLOGY
    YOU GIVE PLATINUM
    YOU GIVE TUNGSTEN
    The winds grow stronger nearly scraping the hull of my ship.
    • Take off and leave (Lose 1 Hull)
    • "Platinum" Give Platinum (Lose 5 Hull; Lose "Platinum"; Learn 1 Technology)
    • "Tungsten" Give Tungsten (Lose 5 Hull; Lose "Tungsten"; Learn 1 Technology)
    • "Iron" Give Iron (Lose 5 Hull; Lose "Iron")
  • A satellite entirely of ice!... Ice is water, and when I say "water" - I mean H2O - precious hydrogen and oxygen!
    I land on the satellite, put on my space suit (it's freezing cold out there!) and start filling my electrolytic tanks with hunks of ice and snow. All goes well and I'm happy.
    And then... the satellite trembles... again and again! Something huge is approaching!
    • Pack up and blast off (Gain 20 Fuel + 10 Oxygen)
    • Get ready to fight (Gain 30 Fuel + 15 Oxygen; Lose 15 Hull)
    • "Solar Sails" Unfold solar sails (Gain 100 Fuel + 100 Oxygen)
  • It is so large that first I thought it to be some sort of a strange, polygonal moon… but in fact…this was a ship. The carcass of this colossal spacecraft is so big that my ship could easily fly through any of its cross passages. Most definitely, this ship was built by a race of giants. Deities? Dead deities. The vessel appears to be ruined and deserted.
    • Investigate (Learn Tau Stasis; Lose 10 Hull)
    • Ignore (Nothing)
    • "Geo Scanner" Scan the ship (Gain "Omega")
  • I saw something extraordinary.
    I landed on a small, barely discernible planet orbiting at an ideal distance from the star. Plants (purple-coloured and very tall). Water (oddly orange). And life. Tiny creatures living in tiny villages built with tiny stones. They flock around me, trembling. Is it dance? Do they take me for a God? Am I here to change their life?
    • Interact (Learn 2 Words)
    • Pilfer the village (Learn 1 Technology)
    • "Geo Scanner" Activate the Geoscan (Gain "Omega")
  • I landed on a small moon orbiting a gaseous planet.
    This is ridiculous, but... ok, I'll tell you... a violet life form knocked at my airlock, and I, erm, let it in.
    So, it was a violet cube having several small tentacles to help it move and grab things. It totally ignored me but instead - leaned over my space folder.
    • Let it do whatever it wants (Space Folder Damaged; Lose 10 Hull; Learn 1 Technology)
    • Force it out (Nothing)
    • "Ansible" Communicate through the Ansible (Learn 4 Words)
  • So, here it is! This extraordinary phenomenon, described in my world's astrophysicists' wildest theories: the Dark Flow!
    This solar system is shrouded in dark nothingness that seems to extend to infinity, to someplace lost in deep, deep space, too far away from my goal.
    Gravity net attracts my ship... I must get rid of it…
    • Go full throttle (Lose 20 Fuel)
    • Give up (Warped... out there — 30 stars forwards)
    • "Gravitational Well Generator" Make a gravitational well (Nothing)
  • I see a ship... drifitng, half-torn apart, but very huge... and of human proportions! In fact, everything here looks like it was made by humans. I am confused - how is that possible?
    I put on my space suit and start exploring... very impressive... everything's fit for humans. Thousands... millions of empty cryogeniс capsules... my oxygen reserves dry up, and I leave empty-handed, unable to find anything in these immense halls of death.
    • Look for a logbook (Nothing)
    • Examine the space suits (Learn Shared Cryonics)
    • Collect iron (Gain 10 "Iron")
  • I see an immense space octopus (when I say immense, think of an island), drifting along a belt of asteroids. It probes them, chooses one, and crushes it to dust with its tentacle, revealing useful mineral resources!
    It then absorbs them with its "mouth". Suddenly. the creature stops all activities, entranced.
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Get closer to the "mouth" (Lose 5 Hull)
    • Examine what's left of an asteroid (Gain "Omega")
    • "Ultraprobe" Use the Ultraprobe (Gain "Omega" + "Platinum")
  • I have stumbled upon a station looking similar to mysterious "cubes" that showed me my way through the stars. But this station is larger, a lot larger. And it is not working. Flashlight in my space suit illuminates its surface - so huge that I can't see its edges. So surreal!
    In the whereabouts of this "dead" cube I see a cubicle full of black energy substance. It could be of use to me, but…
    • Take the substance (Gain "Omega")
    • Sprinkle it on the "dead" cube (Gain 100 Fuel + 100 Oxygen + 100 Hull)
    • "Ansible" Activate the Ansible (Learn 2 Technologies)
  • I see a capsule... a large capsule resembling a cargo compartment of a vessel.
    It spins around the star like a comet on a distant and eccentric orbit.
    I grab it with the probe and go out in space to examine it... Well, it is locked and heavily armoured. A cosmic safe? The technology seems to be very advanced, so, I guess, my soldering iron will be useless here.
    On the front side of the capsule I see buttons representing all known geometric forms: circle, star, ring, square... shall I try to guess the combination?
    • Press the Star and the Square buttons (Nothing)
    • Press the Ring and the Oval buttons (Nothing)
    • Press the Rectangle and the Disk buttons (Gain 100 Fuel + 100 Oxygen + 100 Hull)
    • Leave (Nothing)
  • The pulsating radiation of the star makes me want to sleep - it hypnotizes me. I lose control over my body. My numbed mind cannot stop me from turning towards the star and powering up the reactors.
    Against my will, I rise. My legs are carrying me to the airlock... This star - or something that inhabits it - wants to rob me of my ship and throw me away.
    Desperately straining to stay focused I manage to...
    • Break an oxygen duct (Lose 10 Oxygen + 10 Hull)
    • Break the reactors (Lose 10 Hull; Interplanetary Reactor Damaged)
    • "Thermal Resonance Generator" Activate thermal shield (Nothing)
  • The puzzle
    An elliptical space station orbits around the sun. Its access door is firmly locked. The lock itself is a tangram, where symbols have to be placed in the correct order. I see symbols of Oxygen, iron, Helium... and many other.
    In so-called “instruction manual” I see symbols of small sphere, an arrow and a large sphere.
    So, what's the order of placement?
    • None (Nothing)
    • Oxygen, Iron, Helium, Hydrogen (Nothing)
    • Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen, Iron (Gain "Omega")
    • Helium Hydrogen, Iron, Oxygen (Nothing)
  • Only a single asteroid is in this system, floating isolated. It is all covered with shiny sprouts of some weird plant resembling a mechanism of arms and interfaces.
    I approach, and these mecha-sprouts connect to my board computer. It displays these phrases:
    ME TECHNOLOGY JUDGES/ARCHITECTS
    YOU WANT :
    1 - STAR IIIII
    2 - STAR IIIII IIIII
    3 - STAR IIIII IIIII IIIII
    4 - HELIUM
    • Select first (Warped... out there — 5 stars forwards)
    • Select second (Warped... out there — 10 stars forwards)
    • Select third (Warped... out there — 15 stars forwards)
    • Select fourth (Gain 20 "Helium")
    • "Death Seed" Do nothing (Gain "Omega"); response contains glyphs YOU DEATHSEED / ME GIVE OMEGA (except bug prevents DEATHSEED from being displayed)
  • From the depths of space comes a station drifting at a tremendous speed. It has a nasty gash in its hull and is losing pulsating crystals. They are emitting light with a variable frequency.
    Another enigma.
    Should I let it go?
    • "Ansible" Scan the crystals with your Ansible (Learn 1 Technology; Learn 1 Word)
    • Ignore (Nothing)
    • Try to reach the station (Gain 10 "Platinum" + 10 "Cobalt" + 10 "Thorium" + 10 "Gold")
  • It had appeared like a ruby in space.
    I fly over a small moon alive with intense volcanic activity: it is red with lava, other than a few isolated dry patches.
    I spot a block of Omega floating to the surface, indicating incredible telluric activity. But can I risk going in any closer?
    • "Thermal Resonance Generator" Turn on the Thermal Resonance Generator (Gain "Omega")
    • Salvage the Omega (Lose 20 Hull; 1 Module Damaged)
    • Leave (Nothing)
  • All of my devices fail at once... as if I had no power left. My ship is drifting aimlessly, much to my dismay, and there’s nothing I can do about it.
    And then I see it: a huge metallic creature, the size of a planet, sucking in other drifting spacecrafts through various openings.
    Power onboard has been restored. A strong invisible current continues to draw me toward the yawning planet. Should I let it happen?
    • "Gravitational Sails" Deploy Gravitational Sails (Nothing)
    • Let it happen (Warped... out there — 1-15 stars forwards)
    • Go into overdrive (Lose 15 Fuel)
  • My devices indicate a small moon with a breathable atmosphere. Good news! I touch down.
    A weird but not uninviting place: twisted vegetation grows near a pink stream. A small cat-like creature with long ears and elongated eyes is perched on a branch watching me.
    • Ignore (Gain 100 Oxygen)
    • Hunt the creature (Gain 100 Oxygen; Gain "Omega")
  • A great white flaccid mass comes into view in an asteroid field. It quivers slightly, like some cold shivering animal.
    From a safe distance, I can make out an elongated brown metal shape, a needle of sorts sticking out of the dull mass. A greyish stream is escaping from the wound.
    What should I do?
    • Nothing (Nothing)
    • Use your ship to remove the needle (Gain "Omega"; Should lose 10 Fuel + 10 Hull, but bugged)
    • "Ultraprobe" Pull the needle out with an Ultraprobe (Gain "Omega")
  • The Space Folder creaks and screams. I wish I could do something, but the technology is utterly beyond me. The ship shudders...
    Then everything freezes.
    I didn’t make it into the system. I’m on the brink of something...tottering between two states. I sense if I push the ship a little harder, I’ll make it farther afield. But I could also cut the device...and be propelled elsewhere.
    • Go farther afield (Warped... out there — 15 stars forwards)
    • Turn off the Space Folder (Nothing)
    • Break the Space Folder (Space Folder Damaged)
  • On the outskirts of the System, I encounter a massive ball of ice. It has been trapped there for millions of years. My onboard instruments detect a nucleus. But is it a treasure or a pile of stones?
    • Ignore it (Nothing)
    • "Solar Sails" Melt it with your Solar Sails (Gain "Omega")
    • Drill into the ball (Drill Damaged; Gain "Iron")
  • I come across a small moon orbiting a gas giant. It has a low oxygen atmosphere... but it’s enough to fill my supply tanks!
    I touch down and start up the pumps.
    Small lizard-like creatures are watching me, a whole colony of them... starting to throw rocks at me! Hey! Take it easy! Easy, guys! I’m a friend!
    • Wait (Lose 10 Hull; Gain 100 Oxygen)
    • Switch on your engines (Gain 100 Oxygen)
    • "Gravitational Well Generator" Use the Gravitational Well Generator (Gain 100 Oxygen)
  • A supernova appears before me! The star is expanding outward from the middle, producing an intense wave of energy systematically pulverizing the planets in its path.
    I can make out rocks and even stations in distress, swept away by the solar blast.
    What am I going to do?
    • Flee (Nothing)
    • Salvage the rocks (Gain "Gold" + "Hafnium" + "Tungsten" + "Thorium"; 2 Modules Damaged)
    • Fly in closer to the stations (Learn 1 Technology; 2 Modules Damaged)
  • My ship wanders on the outskirts of a gaseous cloud. Green and blue swirls spread in every direction. I am tempted to explore it to see if I can uncover any resources, but its high levels of ionization may damage my instruments. Is it worth the risk?
    • Leave (Nothing)
    • Explore (Gain "Omega"; 3 Modules Damaged)
    • "Geo Scanner" Use the Geo Scanner (Gain "Omega")
  • A solar tsunami! A great cosmic wave, a towering curtain shimmering like an aurora borealis is spreading across the system – and coming straight at me! What should I do?
    • Change systems right away (Warped... out there — 1 star forwards)
    • Hide among the asteroids (Forget 3 Technologies)
    • "Supra-Conductor" Activate Supra-Conductor (Nothing)
  • A desolate planet. An enormous, maze-like construction. My ship errs aimlessly through the empty labyrinth.
    But its heart is still beating: I discover at its center electromagnetic waves reverberating on the walls. A life form? What should I do?
  • I’m caught up in a dense field of asteroids…they are everywhere! It’s one near miss after another! What should I do?
    • Weave your way in and out of the asteroids (Lose 20 Hull)
    • Change systems right away (Warped... out there — up to 5 stars backwards or forwards)
    • "Solar Sails" Deploy your Solar Sails (Nothing)
  • An Anomaly draws my attention to the outer edge of the system. Twisted scraps of metal…maybe a vessel that had collided with a large asteroid?
    Not everything had been destroyed, however: a radioactive reactor is giving off unbearable heat. Going in any closer is pretty risky. But I can make out materials... and... something else... a floating rectangle.
    • Flee (Nothing)
    • Salvage the resources (Gain 20 "Iron"; 1 Module Destroyed)
    • Head towards the rectangle (Gain "Human"s; 1 Module Destroyed)
  • A magnificent sight: a cluster of comets crossing the sky, rushing towards the system’s sun. Comets contain a lot of water, and therefore oxygen... should I attempt mining them?
    • "Drill" Mine the comets (Lose 10 Fuel; Gain 100 Oxygen)
    • Follow the comets (Gain 100 Oxygen + 100 Fuel)
    • "Ansible" Activate the Ansible (Learn 3 Words)
  • There are countless stars packed together in this system. They seem to be dancing with each other. It’s fascinating...
    Thousands of planets, both living and rocky. I know it’s not normal. Could it be a mirage?
    And yet, they’re there...
    • Jump into another system (Warped... out there — 1-3 stars forwards)
    • Visit the nearest planet (Lose 30 Fuel)
    • "Geo Scanner" Use the Geo Scanner (Nothing)
  • Electromagnetic waves are coming at me from some hidden source. The waves interfere with my equipment but aren’t causing any serious damage. Good news.
    I thought I was home free when I notice a fractal mark moving over the back of my hand... then up my arm...and onto my shoulder!
    • Leave the system right away (Warped... out there — up to 15 stars backwards or forwards)
    • Do nothing (Lose 10 Oxygen; Learn 1 Technology)
    • "Cryonics" Go into cryogenic sleep (Nothing)
  • A walk on a small moon through a forest of giant pink, blue and green crystals. Even in my spacesuit, the surroundings are dreamlike and magical.
    There are metal plaques inside the crystals bearing engravings. Could this be a space cemetery?
    • Salvage the metal (Gain 20 "Iron")
    • Read the plaques (Learn 1 Word)
    • "Ansible" Use the Ansible (Learn 1 Technology)
  • A Kugelblitz, a black hole formed from sheer radiation evaporating in the distance. It is brighter than a thousand suns and deadlier than a thousand neutron stars. Its power is already starting to mess with my equipment... I am in a very tight spot. What should I do?
    • Flee (Lose 20 Fuel; 1 Module Damaged)
    • Take shelter among the asteroids (2 Modules Damaged; 1 Module Destroyed)
    • "Void Fluctuation Projector" Activate the Void Fluctuation Shield (Nothing)
  • It’s magnificent, dazzling, perfectly stunning: an enormous translucent globe floating in the cosmos, harboring a sophisticated world of trees and birds, of weird and densely populated cities.
    But the world is dying... it seems cold and grey. The tank at the base of the globe has only a few swirling drops of Omega left...the fuel that keeps the amazing ecosystem alive.
    • Admire it (Nothing)
    • Take the Omega (Gain "Omega")
    • "Omega" Feed the machine with Omega (Learn 3 Words)
  • My jump failed. I am nowhere near the system I was aiming for. How come?
    I quickly realize what went wrong: a mini black hole, hidden between the two systems, had disrupted my Space Folder. But... how am I going to make it out of here?
    • Make a random jump into another system (Warped... out there — 1-5 stars forwards)
    • Enter the system using your engines (Lose 20 Fuel)
    • "Wormhole Generator" Use the Jump Drive Generator (Gain 15 Fuel)
  • I almost missed it. At the far end of the system, a sphere made of black material encapsulating something...something huge, a moon or a civilization?
    It’s perfectly smooth. I don’t see any openings...What should I do?
    • Land on the surface (Lose 10 Fuel)
    • Ignore it (Nothing)
    • "Drill" Drill into the sphere (Drill Damaged; Lose 10 Fuel; Gain "Tungsten")
  • An enormous ship, just floating there... abandoned. It seems to have power, but it isn’t moving. It isn’t responding to my calls. I’m torn...it may be a trap. But I’m awfully tempted to capture the ship... or to at least capture its resources. What should I do?
    • Board the ship (Lose 15 Fuel)
    • Ignore it (Nothing)
    • "Geo Scanner" Use the Geo Scanner (Nothing)
  • I step onto a frozen moon consumed by a few dying lichens. It is the system’s outer limit. Beyond here, no life is possible.
    Implausible cities, devastated by cold. The world is dead.
    Almost dead...elongated crystallized creatures are spread out in the direction of an enormous building - a temple. They are heading toward the temple. An Omega seed is beating at its heart.
    What should I do?
    • Take the Omega (Gain "Omega")
    • Explore (Learn Life Seed)
    • "Life Seed" Activate the Life Seed (Learn 3 Words)
  • On a roughly-hewn asteroid, a cube shines brightly in the dark. Its faces are covered with glyphs. I brush a finger over them and the words [HYDROGENE], [FER] and [OMEGA] appear.
    I would like to press one of the words, but which one?
    (Note: this text should use the glyphs for HYDROGEN, IRON, and OMEGA, but there is a bug in the input data)
    • Press [HYDROGENE] (Gain "Hydrogen")
    • Press [FER] (Gain "Iron")
    • Press [OMEGA] (Nothing)
  • I’m sailing through a dense interstellar nebula...
    A cloud of blue gas has pulled up alongside me...matching my speed...
    It has taken the shape of my ship. It circles me as if it were curious. Is the cloud trying to communicate with me?
    • Send a luminous message (Nothing)
    • "Hydrogen" Give it hydrogen (Gain "Omega")
    • Fly away as quickly as possible (Lose 5 Fuel)
  • Disaster has struck a rocky planetoid: a giant metal worm – and by giant, I mean it is visible from orbit – is tunneling into the rocky surface and destroying the entire ecosystem.
    Enormous lava rivers rip through the surface with each new tunnel. In a few days’ time, the planet will be dead. In the meantime, there seem to be some valuable materials in the tunnels–but is it worth the risk?
    • Remain in your orbit (Nothing)
    • Salvage the materials (Lose 20 Hull; Gain 20 "Iron")
    • "Shield Generator" Activate your Shield (Gain "Omega")
  • A large rectangular structure is floating in empty space.
    As I approach it, out of curiosity, unknown powerful forces take possession of my ship. I am being steered into the structure, on autopilot. I’m feeling somewhat worried... until I realize my fuel reserves are filling up!
    It's incredible! But the walls of the ship are starting to glow... for some mysterious reason, it’s getting hotter and hotter. My hull is buckling from the heat...
    • Leave as quickly as possible (Gain 15 Fuel)
    • Wait to finish fueling up (Gain 100 Fuel; Lose 50 Hull)
    • "Thermal Resonance Generator" Activate the Thermal Shield (Gain 100 Fuel)
  • Like some dark threshold, a giant aurora borealis slows my ship’s progression. My Space Folder is propelling me into a strange dimension.
    I’m balancing there, on the edge some unknown energy source. I could slip from one end of the universe to the other, covering a vast distance in a single jump. But do I really want to?
    • Slide back (Warped... out there — 10-15 stars backwards)
    • Slide forward (Warped... out there — 10-15 stars forwards)
    • Stay where you are (Nothing)
  • I think I’ve come to a place of pilgrimage.
    From this isolated asteroid, the entire universe spreads before me; the strange gasses floating in its atmosphere drastically improve the clarity of the stars, revealing, by gravitational lens effect, hidden spaces among the rocks.
    I wander the surface, in awe, until I reach an alien observatory, strewn with creatures that have died there.
    What did they hope to see in the stars?
    • Search the bodies (Gain 10 "Carbon")
    • Observe the stars (Gain "Helium")
    • "Interferometer" Observe the stars with the Interferometer (Learn 1 Technology)
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