End Game Idea: Quest
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 1:35 am
You put the satellite into the rocket and blast it off...
...in order to perform an orbital scan of the planet, to scan for deposits of rare minerals which are necessary to launch a properly habitable space vehicle, with the specialist near-FTL propulsion drive that can get you home.
The satellite beams back comprehensive data about your surroundings, filling out your map, and pinpointing, at an extremely remote locale, a site which, if mined, will provide you with the desired minerals.
Between you and the minerals, however, is a vast expanse of teeming red, and several lakes of otherwise untraversible blue.
Now your entire factory, which has up until now been geared towards achieving spaceflight, must slowly be completely restructured towards this final, singular, last-ditch mission.
Cut out all of the unnecessary production. Streamline all of the main processes. Gear everything towards a single, impossible purpose.
Cross the yawning ocean, traverse the biter's waste, find the rare minerals, fortify an outpost around them under a relentless onslaught, mine them, and bring them home.
Only thus can you finally make your way back.
...in order to perform an orbital scan of the planet, to scan for deposits of rare minerals which are necessary to launch a properly habitable space vehicle, with the specialist near-FTL propulsion drive that can get you home.
The satellite beams back comprehensive data about your surroundings, filling out your map, and pinpointing, at an extremely remote locale, a site which, if mined, will provide you with the desired minerals.
Between you and the minerals, however, is a vast expanse of teeming red, and several lakes of otherwise untraversible blue.
Now your entire factory, which has up until now been geared towards achieving spaceflight, must slowly be completely restructured towards this final, singular, last-ditch mission.
Cut out all of the unnecessary production. Streamline all of the main processes. Gear everything towards a single, impossible purpose.
Cross the yawning ocean, traverse the biter's waste, find the rare minerals, fortify an outpost around them under a relentless onslaught, mine them, and bring them home.
Only thus can you finally make your way back.