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Red mission marker

The Red Objective (or Red Mission) is one of the five possible objectives that can be completed, triggering the "Tellurian" game ending. It is always revealed to the player immediately at the start of a new game. It is the objective assigned by Star Iron, the artificial intelligence who brought the player to this sector of the galaxy, and taught the player the Space Folder technology.

To pursue the Red Objective, the player must first travel to the Red Star, which is one of the most distant stars in the game. Therefore this is one of the more difficult objectives to complete. Note that visiting the Red Star and interacting with its star system does not immediately end the game — additional tasks are assigned to the player.

Completing the Red Objective unlocks the Space Fish ship as an available departure ship for subsequent new games.

Gameplay[]

The Red Star highlighted by the Red Objective is always found at star F40, which is the fifth-last star in the bottom string of stars. The stars in this region are widely spaced, meaning that multiple upgrades to the Space Folder are necessary to reach the star. Switching to a space ship with better base power than the Nomad is also key to enabling travel in this region.

The Red Star is a Red Dwarf type star orbited by one space station. Upon interacting with the space station, the player is told that completing the Red Objective actually requires travelling back to the Green Star and completing two tasks there. The player is taught the two necessary technologies (Death Seed and Wormhole Generator), if they are not yet known.

The player must then travel to the Green Star, which is located at F30, i.e., ten stars back in the same string of stars. Before reaching the star, the player needs to build the two required modules (Death Seed and Wormhole Generator). The player will need to have at least 2 Omega available. A Shield Generator is not strictly necessary -- all ships can enter a yellow dwarf star without being destroyed, as long as the ship's hull is fully repaired. The ship used at the Green Star does not have to be the same one that visited the Red Star (despite the special modifications made specifically to that ship by Star Iron).

Upon entering the Green Star system, the player should immediately go into orbit around the Yellow Dwarf star at the center of the system -- do not interact with the space station orbiting the star, because that will trigger the Green Objective ending and finish the game.

The player must then select "Plant Death Seed", transforming the Yellow Dwarf into a Black Hole. Finally, select "Enter Black Hole" to complete the Red Objective and end the game.

Note that these actions will only complete the Red Objective if the player has first gone to the Red Star, allowing Star Iron to modify the player's computer with the information necessary to make the special temporal/spatial wormhole jump. Otherwise, the wormhole at the Green Star is just a standard wormhole. Travelling to the Red Star after planting the Death Seed and returning will allow the objective to be completed.

Storyline[]

The Red Objective is the task assigned to the player by Star Iron at the start of the game. Completing the objective allows the player to return to Earth (it is the only objective that returns the player home) -- travelling through both space and time, going back 100 billion years to the 22nd century, before the Sun was destroyed by the Judges / Architects.

At the Red Star, Star Iron tells the player how its civilization was devastated when the Judges / Architects destroyed its star, triggering a mass exodus of the survivors. Some of the refugees went mad, becoming People Death; others created the Star Iron artificial intelligence before fading away.

Star Iron wants the player to destroy the Judge / Architect star, whether out of revenge or to prevent them from continuing to destroy civilizations. Somehow the technologies collected by Star Iron will then allow the resulting black star to be turned into a super-powerful wormhole, returning the player to 22nd century Earth.

Your return to Earth ends up being somewhat bittersweet, however. You realize that what is left of you is no longer human, but alien, and that you risk being ostracized by humans on Earth. Nevertheless, you decide to land and share the "dark prophecy" that the Sun is about to be destroyed by the Judges / Architects.

The overall Out There storyline strongly suggests that humans were in fact the race that created Star Iron. This explains why People Death appear to be humans and why Star Iron is going to such lengths to help the player. Star Iron avoids explicitly telling the player this detail, however, presumably because the player will be sent back in time to before the Sun's destruction to possibly change history.

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Star Iron Dialog[]

Green Star Actions[]

Return to Earth[]

Bugs[]

  • It is not possible to talk to the Judges / Architects before destroying their star (any attempt to do so will trigger the Green Objective ending, instead). Therefore the player is forced to blindly accept the Star Iron perspective and commit genocide without allowing the destroyed race any recourse or possibility of self-defense. The player's actions are ethically equivalent to the destruction of the Sun by the Judges / Architects (or arguably even worse, if ethics are a human-specific concept).
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