First off, this is a WIP and will be updated as I play the game.

There are a lot of events in the game and I wanted a guide that listed them and what each choice gave you. This will be entirely text because otherwise it'd be impossible to find a specific entry.

If the way I've set this guide up or the way I've explained things is confusing, please let me know. This is the first guide I've written (and of course I chose to do something this big) and I'm mostly writing this for myself but wanted to share it.

The encounters will be split up by ones with choices and then the fixed ones. They'll be sorted by alphabetical order of the first few words. You'll be able to find a specific one by searching for a phrase in the text or by one of the choices.

Due to how much text can be in an entry, the multiple choices sections will have at most 6 or 7 entries. Some entries will have short notes from me, mostly if I need to recheck an outcome or that I think something was given but I didn't have a screenshot for.

NOTE: Spelling and grammatical errors in the entries are there because they're in the original text. I have not edited them in any way. There may be a few missing commas and apostrophes from me not quadruple checking every entry anymore.

Here's an example of how the events will be listed.

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A satellite entirely of ice! ... Ice is water, and when! 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
  
  • OK, I've seen enough movies to know, what you might run into on such planets. I quickly pack things up and blast off this rock.
    
    • GAIN FUEL (+20)
      
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+10)
      
  
  
• Get ready to fight
  
  • ???
    

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As I find more events and the outcomes, the entries will be updated.

A bubble as big as an asteroid is floating in space, dotted with shiny, blinking spots.

Intriguing...

• Ignore
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Touch
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Wait and see
  
  • I move forward without touching the bubble... I notice that hydrogen molecules that come in contact with it are transformed into pure energy! God, that's a pocket of antimatter!
    
    I fly away carefully. If a single gram of matter touched it, it would explode with the energy of a nuclear bomb! That was a close call!
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      

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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
  
  • I spin around and slam the throttle to maximum speed, trying to outrun the thing. But it follows me without any visible effort. Before the engines burn out, I give up the chase... and it disappears. Weird...
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-15)
      
  
  
• Wait
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Broadcast greeting
  Requires Ansible
  
  • I switch on the comm and a light song instantly fills the cockpit. I sense them in my mind, simultaneously delivering and collecting a torrent of information.
    
    They are highly evolved and have great difficulty adapting to my primitive way of thinking. But I have no doubt they were benevolent; before leaving, they granted me a token of friendship.
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      
    • LEARN WORD
      

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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: EVIL GOD DEATH STAR.

• Board the ship
  
  • My bulkheads creak under the heat of the star and my atmosphere regulation devices are pushed to their limits. I put on my space suit and go outside to explore the ship. Inside, I see the remains of a massive engine now broken into pieces, assaulted by some ancient power.
    
    Before leaving, I salvage an interesting device that I believe can be repaired.
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY (Death Seed)
      
    • LEARN WORD
      
  
  
• Leave
  
  • ???
    

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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!
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Leave
  
  • My sixth sense warns me that this living object is not to be trifled with. I'd better leave.
    

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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
  
  • Possibly there's an evil monster inside... Better get out of here.
    
  
  
• Explore
  
  • ???
    

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{NEEDS TRANSLATION}

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Wait
  
  • I wait.
    
    The probe scans my ship, my stock, and then me. It then transmits a message to my screens: CALCIUM {ALBIUR} IRON. PEOPLE DEATH. Then it disappears.
    
    Curious...
    
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+100)
      
  
  
• Leave
  
  • ???
    

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Use your ship to remove the needle
  
  • I hitch the needle to the ship and rev up my engines.
    
    It's a tricky business, and I have to give my engine everything it's got... but the needle gives way and I'm off - full speed ahead among the asteroids! A couple of them bounce off my hull. The grey mass is no longer in sight... Let's have a closer look at the needle!
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-10)
      
    • LOSE FUEL (-10)
      
    • GAIN OMEGA (+1)
      

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Land
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Explore the control station
  
  • I enter the tiny cube floating in the center of the construction. Suddenly, a force takes hold of the ship and tries to tear it apart! I engage full thrust to escape!
    
    As I flee, I see behind me a spark shining - then burning - into a massive oblong sun. Nuclear fusion! I fly as fast as I can to escape the blast.
    
    Everywhere around me, the ice is thawing... I realize that, in a couple of millenia, Iife will thrive there... and it will be my doing.
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-10)
      
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Fly away
  
  • I don't need this. Well, not at the cost of fighting a robot army.
    

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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
  
  • Never mind the free gas - I don't want to risk my neck! I leave the strange station as quickly as possible. It fades away as soon as I'm gone.
    
    • GAIN FUEL (+15)
      
  
  
• Wait to finish fueling up
  
  • ???
    

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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
  
  • I wait, silent in my hiding place. Like vultures, the ships fuss around the station, trying to retrieve the most precious components. Then they leave. I wait a little bit more and head towards the massacre. There is nothing much to be found, beside dozens of shredded corpses, floating about. Still, I manage to collect some useful materials.
    
    • GAIN MATERIALS
      
      • IRON (+3)
        
      • GOLD (+1)
        
  
  
• Try to save the capsule
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Fly away
  
  • ???
    

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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?

• Mine the comets
  Requires Drill
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Follow the comets
  
  • I enter into their orbits... as they near the sun, they vaporize, and I easily salvage a lot of water that I evaporate into oxygen and fuel. Terrific!
    
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+100)
      
    • GAIN FUEL (+100)
      

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.

• Analyse with the Interferometer
  Requires Interferometer
  
  • The interferometer shows that it is nothing more than a hollow labyrinth, but it does register one small anomaly - an abandoned probe-like device.
    
    I wonder what it is...
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY (Symbiotic Extension)
      
  
  
• Ignore
  
  • I am not yet ready to explore this labyrinthine planet.
    

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Approach
  
  • I set course towards the common base of the two pyramids, where I discover an opening.
    
    Suddenly, a force takes hold of the ship and draws me closer. I immediately sense danger and set my reactors to full power. The grasping force searches for a hand-hold, tearing open the cargo bay. I barely manage to escape.
    
    Alas, I lost much of what I was carrying... but at least I am alive.
    
    • LOSE SUPPLIES
      

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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?

• Ignore
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Explore the ship
  
  • I slip into my space suit, dock with the ship, and cut a hole through the hull with my last blowtorch. Inside, I find coffins... Hundreds of rows lined with thousands of giant sarcophagi, with dead aliens inside.
    
    Something happened here. They fled their world. And then they died.
    
    I examine the sarcophagi and determine that they employ highly advanced cryonic components. I take time to study them before abandoning the drifting graveyard to its eternal silence.
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY (Shared Cryonics)
      
    • LEARN WORD
      
  
  
• Activate the Ansible
  Requires Ansible
  
  • With the Ansible, I discover that the ship is transmitting a lengthy message composed of alien words and bizarre imagery.
    
    I can't understand what it's saying, but, here and there, I begin to grasp the meaning of several words could be useful.
    
    • note: I recieved nothing but I think I also learned all the words I could at the time.
      

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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
  
  • I release the fuel manifold, alien spaceship hooks it up with its robotic arms. I start pumping a portion of my fuel over to them... I hope it helps. An incomprehensible message is displayed on my screen. For a moment, opaque observation bay of that ship is on the same level opposite of me: even if they see me — I see nothing.
    
    Then, the vessel skyrockets into the deep space.
    
    Such gratitude!
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-30)
      
  
  
• Rob him
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Seek help
  Requires Interferometer
  
  • My interferometer detects a fuel station not far away!
    
    I lay a fuel line between the station and the drifting ship. Station starts flickering, fuelling the ship. An incomprehensible message is displayed on my screen. For a moment, opaque observation bay of that ship is on the same level opposite of me: even if they see me - I see nothing.
    
    Then, the vessel skyrockets into the deep space.
    
    I hook up to the fuel line hoping to gather what's left of the fuel - now that's what is most welcome!!
    
    • GAIN FUEL (+50)
      
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+50)
      

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A satellite entirely of ice! ... Ice is water, and when! 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
  
  • OK, I've seen enough movies to know, what you might run into on such planets. I quickly pack things up and blast off this rock.
    
    • GAIN FUEL (+20)
      
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+10)
      
  
  
• Get ready to fight
  
  • I valiantly take my solder gun and prepare to fight the... Uh-oh... this... hairy dinosaur, all covered in ice and it is almost six times the size of my ship!
    
    I stand confused, until its enormous paw knocks me and my ship over. I come around in a snowdrift, and with this big guy still around I sneak into my overturned ship. Wheezing sounds come out of my throat when I breathe. Looks like my ribs are broken. I start the engines and try to take off head over heels, scraping the ice with my hull...
    
    My ship is on orbit, I'm fine... but badly beaten!
    
    • GAIN FUEL (+30)
      
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+15)
      
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      

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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?

• Explore
  
  • Tough decision... Eventually, I decide to fly into the cube.
    
    The Geiger Counter doesn't beep anymore - it just plays one long note! I take a look around... I am in a warehouse full of raw materials!
    
    Before the radiation overwhelms me, I take everything I can and head back to the ship, feeling burnt from the inside. I discover that some of my hair has fallen out and that the radiation damaged one of my modules.
    
    The ship will survive... not so sure about myself.
    
    • GAIN IRON (+14)
      
    • EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
      
  
  
• Leave
  
  • Space is dangerous enough as it is. Let's get out of here.
    

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Hide among the asteroids
  
  • An asteroid belt may provide a little protection. I take cover in the densest area and wait for the electromagnetic wave to pass by.
    
    It goes by... no power surges, but all of my equipment goes out. Not good...
    
    • LOSE TECHNOLOGY (-3)
      

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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
  
  • I activate the device. It vibrates, producing a strong magnetic field that forces me to retreat. Then, this device emits a dark beam in the stars direction, rapidly decreasing its activity. So, is this a star stabilizer? The civilization that built it must have unimaginably advanced technology.
    
  
  
• Examine it
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Break it
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Get away... and fast!
  
  • ???
    

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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
  
  • I station my spacecraft well beyond the system, in the Oort cloud. The tidal wave of energy has slightly damaged system, but it's nothing serious.
    
    How many lives have been lost in the blast?
    
  
  
• Salvage the rocks
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Fly in closer to the stations
  
  • ???
    

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{NEEDS TRANSLATION}

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 {ANANMA}, and another named STAR IRON.

• Choose the first circuit
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Choose the second circuit
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Choose the third circuit
  
  • In perfectly intelligible words, I hear the following message:
    
    "They call themselves PEOPLE DEATH. They left our elders. Their emperor GOD PEOPLE DEATH ordered them to ravage every planet and system they found until they reached their new home. But they never will. We had a home, but it was stolen from us."
    
    Then the cube seems to shut itself down forever.
    

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{NEEDS TRANSLATION}

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
  
  • What an amazing discovery! The temple is an ancient buried ship! The words {XEACON DURBAR} are still legible millennia later... In the central room, where a stone altar awaits, I discover some type of incredible transportation technology.
    
    I take it and my heart fills with joy!
    
    • COLLECT OXYGEN (+100)
      
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY (Tau Stasis)
      
    • LEARN WORD
      
  
  
• Ignore
  
  • ???
    

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Read the plaques
  
  • I examine the strange markings on the tombs and record the vibrations... I try my best to understand. Is this place a cemetery... or something else?
    
    A few hours later... I manage to make out a single a word. Will the secret of the site be revealed to me?
    
    • LEARN WORD
      

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
  
  • I jettison some fuel into space, hoping I've understood its request. It blinks, takes my gift, and disappears. What, not even a "thank you"? Aliens...
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-20)
      
  
  
• Give oxygen
  
  • I jettison some oxygen into space. The crystalline visitor absorbs it and answers with soft sounds. Then a force takes control of my mind and I lose consciousness.
    
    I wake up later and am about to curse it when I realize that it has somehow transmitted new knowledge into my mind.
    
    • LOSE OXYGEN (-20)
      
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      
  
  
• Use the Ansible
  Requires Ansible
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Leave
  
  • ???
    

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Drop some Iron
  
  • I drop a ton of iron aboard. The beast drops my ship, it's attention all caught by this new piece of "sugar". My ship hits the ground and I lose my breath, but desperation forces me to stand up and start the engines.
    
    Finally I fly away, leaving the creature half-burned. What an encounter!
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-5)
      
    • LOSE IRON (-1)
      

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Salvage the resources
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Head towards the rectangle
  
  • I approach the thing... a kind of sarcophagus... My ship can handle radioactivity, even though one of my devices has just shut down.
    
    I recover the object; n I... I can't believe my eyes.
    
    They're humans! Or some very similar creature!
    
    I can't risk waking them up... what's going on?
    
    • GAIN HUMANS (+2)
      
    • EQUIPMENT DESTROYED
      
    • GAIN COBALT (+1)
      

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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.

• Ram the satellites
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Fly away
  
  • Goodbye, shiny diamonds!
    

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Ignore it
  
  • When something seems too good to be true, it usually is. I don't let myself be tempted, and I start to explore the system.
    
  
  
• Use the Geo Scanner
  Requires Geo Scanner
  
  • I turn on the Geo Scanner.
    
    There is nothing there. The ship is an illusion. A trap.
    
    I carefully avoid it, and I set off to explore the system.
    

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Pass through the '30' face
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Leave
  
  • I fly away. I'd rather choose my own path through the stars.
    

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Ignore
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Activate Ultraprobe
  Requires Ultraprobe
  
  • I switch on the Ultraprobe and follow the comets. Quickly, I gather up some swirling particles left behind in the cosmos.
    
    • GAIN HAFNIUM (+3)
      
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+50)
      
  
  
• Mine the comets
  Requires Drill
  
  • ???
    

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Head for the moon
  
  • I set course for a moon covered in mile-high geysers that blast methane clear into space. I hide in the shadow of one of them: it's so dangerous here that my pursuers quickly give up the chase.
    
    The intense heat of the geysers slightly roasts my hull but at least I manage to gather a little fuel.
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-20)
      
    • GAIN FUEL (+10)
      

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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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Wait and see
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Contact the light
  
  • I reply to the blinking with a ray of light. It responds, using the same pattern and frequency. That's incredible... How can sentient life exist here, between dimensions? Astounding.
    
    After a few replies, the one-dimensional beings tear the space-time continuum and return me to real space.
    
  
  
• Activate the Subspace Reactor
  
  • ???
    

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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
  
  • I rest a little while observing the cataclysm. I wonder if the worm will turn the world into a cocoon once it has had its fill.
    
    I don't have time to wait to find out. I continue on my way to the star system.
    
  
  
• Salvage the materials
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Activate your shield
  Requires Shield Generator
  
  • I activate my shield and plunge towards the planetoid, protected from the flying materials being spewed by the worm every which way.
    
    Deep within the mineral-rich mountains, I come across something very valuable... I didn't come here for nothing!
    
    • GAIN OMEGA (+1)
      

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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
  
  • I switch on my Space Folder. The minute I enter the strange inter-system dimension the mark disappears. It had really scared me.
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      
  
  
• Do nothing
  
  • ???
    

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Enormous aurora borealis enwraps the system like a belt. And... it sings! There is something strange and hypnotizing 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
  
  • I come up the aurora borealis - up close its power feels way stronger. I can not resist its order to give my supplies off to it... I throw away my cargo through the hatch underneath the ship and lose consciousness. When I wake up, the creature is gone.
    
    • LOSE SUPPLIES
      
  
  
• Get hurt
  
  • ???
    

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 hanger
  
  • I slowly approach the hangar, very cautious in this weak gravity.
    
    I hardly touch it when the spider wakes up! I try to force the door, but it won't budge, deeply frozen in this absolute cold!
    
    A leg stomps down beside me. Uh-oh! It's going to kill me! I run towards my ship! The leg pierces one of its wings! I start the engines, trying to fly away, desperately maneuvering to avoid the spider's legs, reaching out to catch me!
    
    Whew! I made it! The spider nearly got me - that was the narrowest escape ever!
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-25)
      
  
  
• Leave
  
  • ???
    

---

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?

• Scan the crystals with your Ansible
  Requires Ansible
  
  • The Ansible seems to be reacting to the crystals... I think they are documents! The station is a drifting library!
    
    I'm unable to capture it all, to understand eveiything, but the rays allow me to isolate a critical bit of information.
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      
    • LEARN WORD
      
  
  
• Ignore
  
  • I gaze wistfully at the station as it moves out of sight, trying not to think about the tons of Omega and the fuel in its bowels.
    
    It quickly disappears, lost in space.
    
  
  
• Try to reach the station
  
  • ???
    

---

{NEEDS TRANSLATION}

Gas clouds, rainbow colored, are closing on my ship.

In their haze, I see messages:

WE LOVE
YOU LOVE
YOU WANT

Then the words: TECHNOLOGY and {RCTABA}.

Mmm... what should I do?

• Point to the word on the left
  
  • The gas shimmers and begins forming into complex 3-D schematics. Suddenly, it twists and I can see the design perfectly - a new technology!
    
    I thank this mysterious entity in my own words as it vanishes into the void.
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      
    • LEARN WORD
      
  
  
• Point to the word on the right
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Wave in peace
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Break it open
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Fuel it with omega element
  
  • I sprinkle the Omega element over the surface of the cube. The substance repairs and fuels the cube, which immediately starts to glow. Briefly, it emits a benevolent aura and goes dark...
    
    Now it's completely dead... but I was lucky to get my ship repaired in such an unusual check up.
    
    • GAIN FUEL (+100)
      
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+100)
      
    • HULL REPAIRED (+100)
      

---

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...

• Board the ship
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Leave
  
  • I don't want to end up like this ship, so I stay hidden.
    
    Soon, the smaller ships return, finish it off, and haul it away like a dead prey animal. Horrible.
    

---

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
  
  • I land on the surface. It is unnaturally cold. It is drawing heat and energy from my ship; it's an entropic well.
    
    I reactivate my engines and take off, full speed ahead, to escape the trap.
    
    What was that dark prison hiding?
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-10)
      
  
  
• Ignore it
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Drill into the sphere
  Requires Drill
  
  • I land on the surface. It is unnaturally cold. It is drawing heat and energy from my ship; it's an entropic well.
    
    I get out my drill to have a go at it... the stone is hard, I'm not getting anywhere. But there are some specks of metal to salvage... horrors! My drill has broken! lt's getting colder and colder... I need to get out of there as soon as possible.
    
    I reactivate my engines and take off, full speed ahead, to escape the trap.
    
    What was that dark prison hiding?
    
    • Drill damaged
      
    • LOSE FUEL (-10)
      

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
  
  • I answer by flashing a beam of laser-light to indicate numerical values. The encompassing bright light suddenly fades and I return to normal space... and then my fuel gauge begins to plummet!
    
    It doesn't last long, and everything soon returns to normal. What the heck just happened!?
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      
    • LOSE FUEL (-15)
      
    • LOSE OXYGEN (-15)
      
  
  
• Answer 13, 17 and 19
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Wait and see
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Flee
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Activate the Ansible
  Requires Ansible
  
  • I switch on the Ansible and detect a signal emanating from the station.
    
    A long message in an alien language. I can't make heads or tails of it, but I listen for a while and begin to understand a few words.
    
    • LEARN WORD (+3)
      

---

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!
  
  • I fly into the singularity. Hey, you only live once.
    
    The tunnel catapults me at top speed in an unknown direction and I find myself quickly thrust back into the void, far from everything.
    
    Not great... but it could have been much worse.
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      
  
  
• Leave
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Fly into the ring
  
  • I pass through the ring and suddenly find myself and the station floating in open space.
    
    Oh no... I've somehow been transported back to the original system where I arrived in this cursed place! It'll take AGES to get back where I was!
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      NOTE: it says it sends you back to the start, but it didn't. It actually sent me closer to the green ending.
      
  
  
• Leave the city
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • At a loss, I gesture emphatically to quiet them down. No doing. I'm stand there, in shower of rocks... My ship's hull will withstand the onslaught, I'm sure, with only a little damage.
    
    I just wish they'd realize I don't mean any harm. I take off with a roar. Perhaps future generations will understand...
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-10)
      
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+100)
      
  
  
• Switch on your engines
  
  • Is it war they want? I rev up my engines to burn a few with my reactors.
    
    It's a massacre: hundreds are killed. At least they're leaving me alone now. I finish filling my holds without worrying about them. But it's too bad...
    
    It's too bad.
    
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+100)
      
  
  
• Use the Gravitational Well Generator
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • Out of scraps laying about my ship I have made a sign of my peaceful intentions. I hope he can see it... and you know what? It worked! The tentacle had retreated and I flew away quickly, while the curious eye of the creature was still staring at me.
    
    My first friend in this strange space odyssey. A six-million-ton friend, who will never be able to come to my parties. I'll be seeing you, buddy!
    
  
  
• Drill into the tentacle
  
  • ???
    

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
  
  • It leads me back to open space.
    
    Much ado about nothing...
    
  
  
• Go through exit I
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Go through exit II
  
  • The hole shines bright as I pass through it. When I exit back into space, the structure has completely disappeared. But... I am not in the same star system anymore!
    
    Was that some kind of interstellar travel gate?
    
    • WARPED TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      I went back to start, but I'm guessing it's random, will double check anyways
      
  
  
• Go through exit III
  
  • ???
    

---

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!

• Flee
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Explore
  
  • I am terrified. I creep up the dark and narrow corridor until I discover the source of the flashes: an old computer, barely in working order... impressive considering how old everything is in here!
    
    In the data, I find the blueprints for an ancient device. This tomb-raid has turned out quite profitable after all!
    
    • LEARN TECHNOLOGY
      

---

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
  
  • I stow it in my ship and fly away. Today was a good day!
    
    • GAIN OMEGA (+1)
      
  
  
• Sprinkle it on the "dead" cube
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Activate the Ansible
  
  • While exploring the station I found a device weirdly similar to my own Ansible. Its databases are encrypted but I hope that my Ansible can handle it... I connect the device with my Omega reserves and start downloading the data. I am sure that this is an amazing discovery!
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY (+2)
      

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Disagree
  
  • I disagree. The Face gives me scrupulous, observant look, its lips crack open to exhale some blue crystals glittering in the star light. I open the airlock to try and catch them... Wow! It is oxygen!
    
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+100)
      
  
  
• Activate the drill
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • I head for the bow of the ship to check for salvage.
    
    Damn! Everything is destroyed!
    
    The first meteorites are crashing down already, shaking the ground and blasting huge clouds of dust into the air! I dash back to my ship and strap in amid a hailstorm of meteoric iron.
    
    From the safety of space, I watch as the planet is peppered with thousands of new craters.
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      
  
  
• Explore the stern
  
  • Heart pounding, I head for the stern of the ship to check for salvage.
    
    There's a Space Folder here surrounded by devices that appear to work in synergy with it. The first meteorites are crashing down already, so I grab one of the devices, dash back to my ship, and strap in amid a hailstorm of meteoric iron.
    
    From the safety of space, I watch as the planet is peppered with thousands of new craters.
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      
  
  
• Leave immediately
  
  • ???
    

---

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 kilometers 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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Leave this place
  
  • Helium is dangerous in an atmosphere permitting its spontaneous combustion. I'd better avoid it.
    

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Force it out
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Communicate through the Ansible
  Requires Ansible
  
  • When this thing wriggles into a corner, I hastily activate the Ansible. The creature responds immediately and drenches me in a stream of words. I do not know how should I respond to these inarticulate growls, but the Ansible seems to register the parameters of interest.
    
    Meanwhile, the creature "says goodbye" and leaves off to the planet's hostile surface.
    
    • LEARN WORD (+4)
      

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Let it be
  
  • I watch as it goes about its business.
    
    It begins to remove essential parts of my equipment, but it seems to know what it's doing so I let it continue. And besides, I'm curious.
    
    Amazingly, it begins assembling some unknown device! I don't think it will work - perhaps it's missing some raw materials - but I think I know how to finish it.
    
    When its done, it chews its way through the hull and escapes into space. What a strange creature...
    
    • EQUIPMENT DAMAGED (x2)
      
    • LEARN TECHNOLOGY
      
  
  
• Feed with Omega
  Requires Omega
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • It takes a lot of energy to change the ship's trajectory and I thrust the engines to the maximum! Ethereal comet barely touches the ship, but nothing happens.
    
    And it quickly disappears into the void.
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-25)
      
  
  
• Prepare to crash
  
  • I cling to my seat and pray for the comet not to tear me in pieces.
    
    We are about to crash in 3... 2... 1...
    
    And... the comet passes through me. It's a phantom! ... and it passes freely through my ship and through me! Looks like it is composed of neutrinos or neutralinos - those particles that pass through any matter!
    
    I sigh with relief when I see that electromagnetic impact had only rebooted my computers... I hope that no data is lost...
    
    • ??? (I didn't screenshot the result, I assume a technology was lost but I'm not sure.)
      

---

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!
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Pilfer the village
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Activate the Geoscan
  
  • I ignore these little guys. My ship's Geoscan module detects an energy source in the centre of the village.
    
    To great discomfort of the locals, I wrench out some kind of totem fixed in the ground. Beneath I find a chest decorated with green stones... a treasure! Inside the chest I see... it's the Omega element! Fantastic. It was a good idea to come here.
    
    • GAIN OMEGA (+1)
      

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Press the Ring and the Oval buttons
  
  • I press the buttons. Nothing happens.
    
    I frantically press the other buttons - to no result.
    
    The lock is either broken, or am I missing something?
    
    I leave the capsule and its mystery drift in space. Too bad!
    
  
  
• Press the Rectangle and the Disk buttons
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Leave
  
  • ???
    

---

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 can't 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
  
  • I approve. The alien then probes my mind, and reads my private memories... not very nice of him... I lose consciousness.
    
    I suddenly wake up in my ship. The alien is gone. I have a headache... and my mind is fixed on something I can't stop thinking about. I must write it down...
    
    • LEARN TECHNOLOGY
      
  
  
• Vague disapproval
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Run away
  
  • ???
    

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Get closer to the "mouth"
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Examine what's left of an asteroid
  
  • Rocky remnants of one of the asteroids drift near the creature. I make sure the monster is sleeping, and approach it: the rock has been squashed like an eggshell. I probe the leftovers and scoop up almost a ton of some strange black material that might come in handy. I'd better go now.
    
    • GAIN OMEGA (+1)
      

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Explore
  
  • There is a mysterious diagram on the walls of the temple. It's a machine. The machine that keeps this world alive, but that ultimately betrays them. I humbly take note of everything, then set off again on my journey.
    
    • LEARN LIFE SEED
      

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Land!
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Activate Ansible
  
  • I switch on the Ansible it analyzes and computes the nav-course of the escaping ships. I fly there as well and discover millions of arks vanishing into a dark flow running like a cosmic river between star systems. I have no choice but to let myself be dragged along, for the flow pulls me in.
    
    I am drawn into a one-dimensional universe similar to the one created by my Space Folder. It warps me into an unknown star system!
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      

---

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
  
  • Ghosts remain still for a second, then they disappear, looking intrigued. Strange encounter.
    
  
  
• Answer on a frequency of 392.00 Hz
  
  • These are vibrations, perfectly matching the notes Do and Mi, and I answer with Sol, completing the chord. My guitar courses were not in vain!
    
    The spectres float freely around me, curious, repeating the chord, together we form a bizarre musical band, trying other chords, as they float around my ship.
    
    After some they disappear into nothingness, and I go on with my journey... At least these creatures have repaired my ship.
    
    • GAIN FUEL (+20)
      
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+20)
      
    • HULL REPAIRED (+20)
      
  
  
• Answer on a frequency of 293.66 Hz
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Wait
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • Ha! I curse the beasts as I burn them out with the iron and incinerate the nest. I wipe my hands clean and nod with satisfaction... and then notice that I've melted through the cabling... cabling that is critical to my data stores.
    
    I AM SO STUPID.
    
    • LOSE TECHNOLOGY
      

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Explore space
  
  • I've never been so free as I am now. I try to reach the nearby star, but suddenly I feel so weak... something is slowly killing me!
    
    I return to the ship: it is trapped inside a constantly growing ice capsule. This... creature seems to be feeding off the heat of my body and my ship!
    
    I fall back into my body, awaking suddenly - and thrust the engines at full speed. Their heat satisfies the needs of the invisible creature and melts the oxygen that had crystallized around my ship. What a strange experience!
    
    • LOSE OXYGEN (-5)
      
    • LOSE FUEL (-15)
      

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Give it hydrogen
  
  • I release a container of hydrogen.
    
    The entity imitates my ship, releasing something I am quick to recover. But it's not hydrogen... it's something much more valuable...
    
    I thank my temporary travel companion, then set out again.
    
    • GAIN OMEGA (+1)
      
  
  
• Fly away as quickly as possible
  
  • ???
    

---

{NEEDS TRANSLATION}

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 {RYSAAN}
YOU GIVE {GA-VCMK}

The winds grow stronger nearly scraping the hull of my ship.

• Take off and leave
  
  • Nothing to do here. I take off and fly away, fighting furious winds.
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-1)
      
  
  
• Give Iron
  
  • The murmurers accept my gift. They stand still and I get nothing in exchange. What kind of negotiation is that?!
    
    I take off and fly away, fighting furious winds.
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-5)
      
    • LOSE IRON (-1)
      
  
  
• (notes: does not want Omega, Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Gold, Humans)

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Press on the spear
  
  • I position my ship at the end of the spear and start the reactors. The spear penetrates the body of the beast and it dies, convulsing - adding valuable information to my data bank. Rest in peace.
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      
  
  
• Activate the Ansible
  Requires Ansible
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • I fly into the large ship. The light inside my cockpit projects strange shadows on the titanic corridors. In the heart of the vessel, I have found an intact module of unknown origin, but its proportions are so immense that I cannot take it with me. I study it from all angles to try and reproduce it later... but my scurry accelerations disturb the delicate balance of this place and the ship's construction starts to crumble. Falling fragments are hitting my hull! I retreat rapidly, leaving the collapsing ship behind...
    
    Whew! That was close!
    
    • NOTE: I didn't receive anything, but I might have had whatever technology you learned here, if any. Regardless, I will double check.
      
  
  
• Ignore
  
  • ???
    

---

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?

• Touch it
  
  • It looks different, but I decide to touch it anyway. My computers turn on and lines are written in my data banks. Wow, it's Christmas in July!
    
    The cube just gave me another technology!
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      
    • LEARN WORD
      
  
  
• Leave
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Fly away
  
  • I'm not getting close to this monster!
    
    Let's get out of here!
    

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
  
  • I dive into the dark flow.
    
    From outside, its velocity wasn't really measurable but once inside I am dragged along at astonishing speed... The stars are moving! I am caught in a pocket of the universe which is gliding through the cosmos, freed from the limits of the speed of light! I'm afraid to go too far so I turn the engines back on and escape the dark flow.
    
    Unbelievable! I have been carried to a new star system.
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      
  
  
• Fly away
  
  • Fascinating, but a little too weird to be safe. Later, maybe.
    

---

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 it 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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Take off at full power!
  
  • I engage the reactors! So long, sugar-planet!
    
    Unfortunately, under the blazing heat of the engine cones, the caramel liquefies - and turns hard as glass! I max-out the engines and smash my way free!
    
    When I'm safely away, I discover that my hull is lined with stress fissures and coated in a few tons of sugar-glass. I'll have a lot of repairs to do...
    
    ... but at least I've got candy!
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-10)
      
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Slide forward
  
  • I let myself slide forward. The stars whizz by... I cover unimaginable distances... to get back to familiar territories.
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      
  
  
• Stay where you are
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • Yes... feeling the imminent danger, I return to my ship and take off. The cold had my ship frozen to the ground, but with sufficient power in my engines I was able to get away... Phew! That was hot! And cold.
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-20)
      
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-10)
      
  
  
• Start drilling
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • I walk for a while in the open air, as the ship pumps finish replenishing my oxygen supply. One last nod to the kitty cat and I'm out of there.
    
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+100)
      
  
  
• Hunt the creature
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • Since my route is blocked, I don't have much of a choice... I let the Folder aim for the system within easiest reach. I just hope I'm not heading for trouble!
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      
  
  
• Enter the system using your engines
  
  • ???
    

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Give up
  
  • Dive into a sun, really?
    
    Let's get back to exploring.
    

---

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
  
  • It is not worth it. I make my way deeper into the system.
    
  
  
• Explore
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Use the Geo Scanner
  Requires Geo Scanner
  
  • I switch on my Geo Scanner and immediately detect a nearby surface anomaly. I adiust my trajectory to recover it, before my devices go into electric overload. I get away just in time!
    
    • GAIN OMEGA (+1)
      

---

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?

• Ignore it
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Board it
  
  • I approach the shipyard and board it. There's no sure way to protect my ship from the too-close stellar rays, so I quickly harpoon a half-built ship and tow it to safety.
    
    The risk was worth it: the engines are apparently finished and hold unknown technologies that could be very useful.
    
    If I can build these for my ship, my journey will be a lot safer.
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY (+2)
      

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Spray some liquid over the ship's hull
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Do nothing
  
  • I leave this place intact to the next visitor's satisfaction - or consternation.
    

---

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?

• Press [HYDROGENE]
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Press [FER]
  
  • I press the glyph.
    
    The cube sinks into the ground and a couple of small metal tanks appear. Iron! My lucky day!
    
    I try to reactivate the cube, but it doesn't respond. Well, at least I got something...
    
    • GAIN IRON (+5)
      
  
  
• Press [OMEGA]
  
  • ???
    

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Drill into the ball
  
  • I plant the drill bit into the ball. Chipping away at ice is a tricky business, and it doesn't go well.
    
    I destroy the contents off the ball, a metal sarcophagus of sorts. Well, I can use the metal at any rate.
    
    When I remove the bit... it's in pretty bad shape. It hasn't been a good day.
    
    • Drill damaged
      
    • GAIN IRON (+5)
      

---

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
  
  • I land on the moon. There's nothing on the surface but ashes.
    
    On the walls of the arena, a strange fresco is carved in stone. It depicts the story of a humanoid people whose sun is devoured by a bird-like being. The people seem to flee in space aboard ships, and the ships contain cubes. I see the humanoids fighting against each other in the ships. Then I see some of them appear to pillage planets populated with other strange-looking aliens.
    
    Very mysterious.
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-2)
      
    • (note: was likely more than this but I had 1 fuel remaining)
      
  
  
• Fly away
  
  • ???
    

---

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 (5)
2 - STAR IIIII IIIII (10)
3 - STAR IIIII IIIII IIIII (15)
4 - {FKMAAM} [note: this is not hydrogen, I have no idea what it actually translates to yet]

• Select first
  
  • The plant grasps my ship with one of its "arms" and... What's going on?
    
    Shining portal is opening and it thrusts my ship through it!
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM [NOTE: I went one system away from where I'd been.]
      
  
  
• Select second
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Select third
  
  • The plant grasps my ship with one of its "arms" and... What's going on?
    
    Shining portal is opening and it thrusts my ship through it!
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      
  
  
• Select fourth
  
  • The plant releases some organic containers and I take them... mmm... I think I'll need them.
    
    • GAIN HELIUM (+20)
      

---

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
  
  • I fly through the yellow opening.
    
    The tunnel grows wider and it forks over and over, and I believe I even passed the beacon at one point.
    
    At last, after so many million miles underground, I finally see stars and planets. I am Free again, in space.
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-20)
      
  
  
• Take the green tunnel
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Take the white tunnel
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Give up
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Make a Gravitational Well
  Requires Gravitational Well Generator
  
  • I made a gravitational well, that stabilized my position in space, and... I escaped the dark flow. Hurray!
    

---

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?

• Offer help in reconstruction
  Requires Iron
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Leave
  
  • I reactivate the ship's engines in order to fly away, and see how these creatures launch a feeble assault. Those little stones won't harm my ship in any way, but there are millions of them! I leave with several scratches, and some centipedes stuck to my hull, taking them with me on an endless journey to the stars.
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-5)
      
  
  
• Pillage the destroyed town
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Repair the town with Omega
  Requires Omega
  
  • ???
    

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!
  
  • I pursue the mysterious night-flying thing at top speed. The chase, though costly to my fuel reserves, proves quite effective: I get close enough for a look.
    
    It's a high-efficiency probe - stunningly efficient, to be honest - equipped with advanced solar sails. I take up a parallel course but can't learn anything further. The solar sails, apparently based on a fractal design, are extremely fascinating...
    
    If I could replicate them, they'd save me a lot on fuel.
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-20)
      
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY (Solar Sails)
      
  
  
• Let it go
  
  • I let the golden star fly away. But I make a little wish first.
    

---

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
  
  • I power the engine and rocket towards the star.
    
    The heat of the sun quickly warms my ship, and the heat-thieving plant quickly releases its grip.
    
    I watch as the plant grows exponentially as it falls towards the raging star, throwing leaves and branches ten times the size of my ship. Moments before it's consumed in the photosphere, the plant ejects six purple and blue seeds into space... just like the one that crashed into my ship.
    
    What a fascinating method of reproduction!
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-5)
      
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      
  
  
• Go out in space to kill it
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • If it can move, it can attack. Let's keep our distance from these things!
    
  
  
• Explore
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • I throw my weight on a duct pipe, hoping to break it. Liquid oxygen cools the air (and bites me cold) waking me out of trance. In a moment, I change course and run away from the star, ruining her deathly hopes.
    
    • LOSE OXYGEN (-10)
      
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-10)
      
  
  
• Break the reactors
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • The Space Folder whirs, pedal to the metal! I'm thrown to the back of the ship!
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      
    • (note: it said random system, but I stayed where I was.)
      
  
  
• Turn off the Space Folder
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Break the Space Folder
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • Full throttle! My hull twists, pulled in two directions by the acceleration and gravitational waves...
    
    I barely escape the terrible attractive power of this cursed star!
    
    • LOSE FUEL (-10)
      
  
  
• Wait and see
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Use the Gravitational Well Generator
  Requires Gravitational Well Generator
  
  • I activate the Gravitational Well Generator, creating a gravity source that balances against the strong attraction of the star... and it works!
    
    I escape without difficulty.
    

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!
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Activate the Space Folder
  
  • I quit dithering and activate the Space Folder without setting a destination. Reality twists around me as I'm warped far away.
    
    I have escaped death once more.
    
    • WARP TO RANDOM SYSTEM
      
    • LOSE FUEL (-10)
      
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      

---

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.

• Flee
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Free the creature
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Wait and see
  
  • I wait in front of the "stellar cage" and watch. I wish to understand what this is.
    
    The creature slams at the walls furiously, then probes my mind! Terrified, I turn to flee... but the creature begs me to release it. Through the mind probe, I see clearly that it is mad and will destroy me. It promises me knowledge and shows me the schematics of a new device, but already I can feel that I am losing my mind.
    
    I rocket away, overwhelmed by fear.
    
    • LEARN WORD (god)
      
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      

---

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
  
  • I fly my ship inside and... amazing! Millions of robotic arms approach and start working on the structure of my ship.
    
    Moments later, the arms eject me from the strange space-factory. I check the hull: it's as good as new!
    
    • HULL REPARIED (+100)
      
  
  
• Leave
  
  • ???
    

---

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.

• Take the lens
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Leave
  
  • Disturbing this 'equipment' could be very dangerous.
    
    I fly away... carefully.
    

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Approach the vortex
  
  • I move closer to the vortex. Suddenly, the thing probes my data stores! And it's modifying them!
    
    I rifle through the system and find that some important blueprints have been removed... but it also seems that new ones have been added.
    
    • LOSE TECHNOLOGY
      
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      
  
  
• Salvage it for resources
  
  • ???
    

---

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.

• Fly away
  
  • I fly away from the hollow star, my mind full of questions.
    
  
  
• Pass through the opening
  
  • My ship is infinitesimally small in the giant opening. Around me, enormous armored whales swim in the solar winds nearby. My pressure and temperature sensors start blaring...
    
    I see, in the heart of the star, shining at the end of a tunnel, a floating planet where convoluted constructions rise high above the ground.
    
    As my ship is about to implode, an invisible force slowly pushes me outward. It seems this world is not for me.
    
    As someone might throw a piece of bread to a curious fish, a few tons of useful materials stream out from the opening in my direction. These will be extremely useful on my journey...
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-30)
      
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+10)
      
    • GAIN HELIUM (+20)
      
    • GAIN THORIUM (+5)
      

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Study
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Use Shared Cryonics
  Requires Shared Cryonics
  
  • I take the time to code a few thousand glyphs into my computer. Then I set it to decrypt the content and go for some cryo-sleep. When I wake up, the computer hasn't worked any miracles but there are a few interesting surprises!
    
    • LEARN TECHNOLOGY
      

---

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
  
  • I mumble some alien words of a peaceful meaning in my radio, but without much hope.
    
    The amoeba shivers and a very small shining cube levitates between us - a cube not unlike the one I encountered at the very beginning of my adventure. I take it.
    
    As the ship falls into pieces, I whisper a good-bye in my human words and return to my ship. There, after the ship's final explosion, I analyze the cube.
    
    Data.
    
    The legacy - incomprehensible, sadly - of a ship or maybe an entire civilization.
    
    And between the lines, schematics.
    
    Maybe I can find something useful in all this.
    
    • LEARN TECHNOLOGY
      
    • LEARN WORD
      
  
  
• Refuse
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Say nothing
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Land
  
  • I attempt to descend through the planet's thick layers without any special protections. Immediately, my cabin starts to creak under the extreme pressure and violent gravitational tides. I catch a brief glimpse of huge towers and shining silhouettes hidden in the clouds... but maybe I imagined that.
    
    I decide to return to space before my ship is completely crushed.
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
      

---

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
  
  • This was a very pleasant exploration. Let's go!
    
    • GAIN OXYGEN (+10)
      
  
  
• Take a photo (flash)
  
  • ???
    

---

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
  
  • Strangely familiar wall-paintings tell the story of these people: these creatures were like me - bipedal and with two arms. Evidently, some ray destroyed their sun and they had to leave their planet and flee in large spaceships. All the colonies died out one by one... beneath the wall-painting, I see a small wordbook flapping its pages in the wind. I learn a few simple words from it.
    
    • GAIN OXYGEN (REFILLED)
      
    • LEARN TECHNOLOGY (Wormhole generator)
      
  
  
• Inspect the temple interior
  
  • Here lies a half-buried spaceship... an arc that used to house the settlers that came from their mother planet. Nearly everything is broken or destroyed (although it is clear that this place of worship was very popular long ago). All of a sudden, I discover a weird module, which I could reproduce on my ship... Looks like its purpose is relocation.
    
    • GAIN OXYGEN (REFILLED)
      
    • (note: I didn't learn anything but the text says you do.)
      

---

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
  
  • Enough bloodshed for today... I hope that they will understand that I did not know what I was doing!
    
    I return to the ship, feeling slightly guilty...
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-25)
      
  
  
• Move on to gather minerals
  
  • ???
    

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
  
  • ???
    
  
  
• Fly through the mines
  
  • Cautiously, I try to fly between the wandering mines... but this field was created to be deadly, even for a ship as small as mine.
    
    Then, the dreaded strike. I knew it. The explosion is huge and powerful, and the other balls explode in domino effect.
    
    I am thrown spinning far back into the system, but at least I am not dead.
    
    • TAKE DAMAGE (-30)
      

---

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
  
  • The moment my hand makes contact, everything disappears and I find myself back aboard my ship, still wearing the space suit. I am simply floating in empty void, and there's no trace of the structure.
    
    I run a quick diagnostic and discover that new technology has been written into my database. Fantastic... but unnerving.
    
    • GAIN TECHNOLOGY
      
    • LEARN WORD (+2)
      
  
  
• Touch the right column
  
  • ???
    

Technically, these aren't required for a guide but I have the screenshots and text all ready, so why not?

These will be split up by ones that give rewards/cost supplies and then ones that are just text.

If something needs to be changed to make these sections easier to read, let me know!

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 ???
  

---

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 FUEL (+40)
  

---

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 FUEL (-20)
  

---

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 FUEL (-20)
  

---

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.

• HULL REPAIRED (+50)
  

---

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 FUEL (+75)
  

---

(Landing on a rocky planet)

A stone slab. A black tombstone on a dead planet.

On the tombstone, no word, nothing but a drawing. Schematics.

I take notes. Maybe it can be useful.

• GAIN TECHNOLOGY (Death Seed)
  

---

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.

• EQUIPMENT 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 FUEL (+30)
  

---

A white elongated cloud, isolated in space. I analyze it and discover that its 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 FUEL (+15)
  

---

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 OXYGEN (-20)
  

---

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.

• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
  

---

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 OXYGEN (-5)
  

---

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 least I survived.

• LOSE OXYGEN (-20)
  

---

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.

• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
  

---

(Landing on a rocky planet)

I came here too late.

An alien ship was sinking in a methane lake. Hopeless, the crew ignited the engines, causing a tremendous explosion that scattered the ship on a
large range!

No survivor, of course. I find however an unknown device dropped by the explosion. Let's see if I can do something with it.

• GAIN TECHNOLOGY
  

---

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 voila - oxygen.

Not a lot, but some.

• GAIN OXYGEN (+5)
  

---

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 civilization long gone millennia ago.

I tried to explore but an automated defense system fired on me and drove me off.

• TAKE DAMAGE (-20)
  

---

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 OXYGEN (-10)
  

---

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 FUEL (+50)
  

---

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.

• TAKE DAMAGE (-20)
  

---

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 FUEL (-10)
  

---

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.

• TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
  

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 OXYGEN (+100)
  

---

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.

• TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
  

---

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.

• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
  

---

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.

• LOSE TECHNOLOGY (-1)
  

---

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.

• EQUIPMENT DESTROYED (1)
  
• GAIN IRON (2)
  
• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED (1)
  

---

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.

• HULL REPAIRED (+20)
  

---

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.

• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
  

---

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 FUEL (-5)
  

---

(Requires alien passenger)

My alien buddy worked on the inside of the wall today. He did a fantastic job!

• HULL REPAIRED (+10)
  

---

(Requires alien passenger)

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?

• RANDOM SYSTEM
  

---

(Landing on a rocky planet)

No life, no atmosphere. Columns of bugs, though, crawl on the ground towards a weird, asymetrical pyramid.

I get close. Strange noises permeate from within.

The pyramid is made out of components of crashed alien ships. There’s an unknown module stuck on the wall! I take it with me.

• GAIN TECHNOLOGY (Interferometer)
  

---

(Landing on a rocky planet)

Nothing. There's nothing here. Which is a good thing. But of course, as soon as I have thought "nothing" that something happened some... let's say some crystal thingies grew around the ship. Then... I lost consciousness. I remember being asked many things. And I know I have something else in my head now. I have to take notes, right now. I think it's a new technology.

• GAIN TECHNOLOGY
  

---

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.

• EQUIPMENT 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 SUPPLIES
  

---

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 FUEL (-5)
  

---

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.

• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
  

---

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.

• TECHNOLOGY LOST
  

---

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...

• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
  
• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
  

---

(Landing on a rocky planet)

The gravity is colossal here. It comes from a black... exotic matter...[cut] I lost consciousness. The extreme gravity bends space-time. I have visions of the future and the past. I saw myself building an unknown device. [cut] It's gone. I am breathing again. It looked like a gravity tide. I still remember how to build the unknown device. Let's build it and play with the principle of causality!

• GAIN TECHNOLOGY
  

---

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.

• TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
  

---

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 FUEL (-20)
  

---

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
  

---

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 FUEL (-20)
  

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 FUEL (-10)
  

---

(Landing on a rocky planet)

There's a shining peak far away. It's ice! But my joy fades quickly: it's highly radioactive. I understand this is the remain of the atmosphere of a ship that crashed here. I dig a little bit, without any result... but for a weird module.

Mmm... maybe my trek here will have some benefits.

• GAIN TECHNOLOGY
  

---

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 OXYGEN (-20)
  

---

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?

• HULL REPAIRED (+20)
  

---

(Landing on a rocky planet)

This planet hosted life, but now it is dead.

Nearby the high walls of an empty stone city, I find a structure holding several statues.

Besides, there's a pile of components... one of them is a broken space folder.

There's something unknown here, oval in shape. What could be the use of this? I must study it.

• GAIN TECHNOLOGY
  

---

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 OXYGEN (+10)
  

---

(Requires alien passenger)

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...

• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
  

---

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 FUEL (+15)
  

---

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 FUEL (+100)
  

---

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.

• TAKE DAMAGE (-15)
  

---

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...

• EQUIPMENT 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.

• EQUIPMENT DAMAGED
  

A nitrogen line has developed a leak... Same old story; I was sitting on a frozen ice cube 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.

---

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 liters 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?

---

Anything is possible. If I get back alive, I will have proven that anything is possible for Mankind.

---

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.

---

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 travelers hopelessly lost on their way home.

The thought cures my loneliness... but only for a moment.

---

Emptiness. Death. Life and intelligence are accidental.

---

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.

---

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 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 colonize 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 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.

---

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 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.

---

I am dizzy. The stars are too bright. When I close my eyes, I see them through my eyelids.

---

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 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.

---

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 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?

note: I was using the Life Tree ship at the time.

---

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 have escaped death far too often. It's an old friend now.

---

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 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!

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 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 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.

---

I miss Earth.

Well, no, in fact I miss hamburgers.

---

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.

---

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.

---

I remember a time when my main problem was not having paid the electricity bill on time.

---

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.

---

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.

---

(Requires alien passenger)

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 l'll understand.

---

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 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.

---

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!

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

It's my birthday today.

Happy birthday, my friend. May you survive at least one more day.

---

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.

---

(Requires alien passenger)

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.

---

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.

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.

---

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.

---

Note to self: make sure I get royalties for my story.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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?

---

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.

---

Red alert today. As I was diving into a new star system, a micro-meteorite struck the observation bay and cracked it.

My O2 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.

---

So far, everything is fine. Yippee.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

---

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.

I use an OCR program instead of typing it all out. While I double and triple check to make sure the text matches, the program likes to mix up capital I's with lowercase L's and exclamation points. It also likes to capitalize every single F, among other punctuation jumbles. If I've missed anything, let me know.

Any assistance is appreciated, if you want to help, please share screenshots! Here is what I've been screenshotting:

The start (with the mouse over my choice so I know what to list it under)

The text for that choice

And the outcome of that choice, if any

If you have different outcomes for an event listed, please share screenshots with me and I'll update accordingly! Likewise, if I've gotten something wrong, let me know! Given there's apparently 350+ encounters, I imagine this will take quite a bit of time for me to fill out on my own.

I will try and update this at least once a week, at least until I've made a bigger dent in the 350+ events. For right now, I've been staring at this text formatting for about 4 hours, so I'm about done for now.

Now that I'm over halfway through 350 entries, I'm going to update when I have at least 20 new/updated entries. I will try and keep any notes in the entries to a minimum.

5/21/22

• Fixed some mistakes
  
• Added new entries
  
• Added Multiple Choices Parts 6 - 8
  
• Added Fixed Outcomes - No Rewards - Part 2

5/23/22

• Added new entries (~40)
  
• Added Multiple Choices Parts 9 - 13
  
• Moved a few things around

6/12/22

• Entries Added: 25
  
• Entries Updated: 5
  
• Added Multiple Choices Parts 13 - 16
  
• Added Fixed Outcomes - Has Rewards Part 3
  
• Moved entries around

6/14/22

• Entries Added: 37
  
• Entries Updated: 14
  
• Added Multiple Choices Parts 17 - 19
  
• Added Fixed Outcomes - No Rewards Parts 3 - 4
  
• Moved entries around