Former-purple-haired, soft-hearted, artistic-type gamer person who is also sometimes an anxious wreck. #NoMansSky Interloper
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First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 4) #Amalgaverse
[An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter. The ship’s service android, Maia, helps them gain access to the bridge where they are presented with three crucial tasks: A) Acquiring crucial data from the ship’s computer, B) Investigating a fast-fading life sign, and C) Going to engineering and venting the drive before the core goes critical.]
Jack makes the call. They’ll split up. Maia and McKay will head to engineering to vent the drive. He and Daniel will investigate the life sign. And Rommie will remain on the bridge to decipher the corrupted data.
Maia leads the way to engineering, McKay trotting alongside her to keep pace. He tries to make conversation as they go, asking her how long she’s served aboard the Waldorf Astoria. She tells him she was commissioned for the freighter’s nine hundred and fifty-sixth voyage, a little over eight years ago after the previous service android was decommissioned and retired.
“What’s android retirement like?”asks McKay. “Custodial work at a museum?”
“Component donation of functional subsystems, followed by industrial recycling,”replies Maia matter-of-factly.
McKay is aghast. “Are you serious? That’s horrible!”
Maia doesn’t understand the reaction. “I will have served my purpose. I am the property of Traugott Corporation after all. They may do with me as they wish, and my salvageable parts contribute to the betterment of the company.”
McKay is winding up to argue the point when they reach engineering. The doors slide open, and the sight inside stops him cold. Crawling across the floor, up the walls, and over the core itself are a half-dozen small, metallic spider-like machines.
What does McKay do?
A) Draw his weapon and fire. Drive them away from the core.
B) Run. Get clear and warn the others.
C) Trust in Maia. Let her handle them.
CHOOSE!
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First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse
[An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter. On board, they discover a service android named Maia who offers to accompany them to the bridge – but first they must make a detour to avoid a potentially compromised section of the ship.]
The away team waits as Rommie checks the forward compartment. Moments later she returns and confirms Maia was telling the truth. Had they unsealed it, they’d have been hit with a wave of hard radiation that would have shut her down, fried their comms and sensors, and slightly irradiated their testes.
Maia says nothing. She merely turns and continues on her way.
You follow, taking the detour around the compromised section, and finally reach the bridge. Its doors slide open on Maia’s neural command, giving the team full access. Maia and Rommie immediately get to work, isolating the damaged decks, restoring life support, and killing the emergency beacon before it draws any unwanted company.
Rommie notes that the ship’s database has been corrupted by whatever it encountered out there, but she has turned up something very interesting. When the atemporal entity entered this reality, knocking the Waldorf Astoria out of FTL, the freighter’s sensors recorded and analyzed the event as it happened. According to this analysis, the rift it passed through carries the same harmonics as the residual traces of their own crossings into this universe. This could well be their key to getting home. But the data is fragmentary and corrupted, and it will take some time to decipher.
Daniel, at that point, reminds them of the lone life sign a few sections over, still flickering but now growing fainter. He wants it made the priority. Maia informs them that the Waldorf Astoria was on an unmanned long haul run, and warns this life sign is likely the entity she warned them about. She wants to accompany them but there is a much more pressing issue that demands her attention.
One of the consoles reveals the anomaly’s pulses have fried the core’s automated containment and regulation, and the reactor is climbing towards a breach, maybe less than an hour from critical. It can’t be stopped from the bridge. Someone has to head to engineering and vent the drive by hand.
What do you do?
A) Wait for Rommie to decipher the corrupted database and retrieve a potential clue to the way home.
B) Investigate the life sign. Reach it before it fades, whatever it turns out to be.
C) Go to engineering and vent the drive. Save the ship.
D) Split the team. O’Neill’s call. He and Daniel will investigate the life sign, McKay accompanies Maia to engineering, while Rommie stays on the bridge to decipher the corrupted data. Everything gets done, but it does spread them thin.
CHOOSE!
[END OF ACT THREE]
Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.
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Christy Stevens ᐰ retweeted
First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse
[An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter. On board, they discover a service android named Maia who offers to accompany them to the bridge – but first they must make a detour to avoid a potentially compromised section of the ship.]
The away team waits as Rommie checks the forward compartment. Moments later she returns and confirms Maia was telling the truth. Had they unsealed it, they’d have been hit with a wave of hard radiation that would have shut her down, fried their comms and sensors, and slightly irradiated their testes.
Maia says nothing. She merely turns and continues on her way.
You follow, taking the detour around the compromised section, and finally reach the bridge. Its doors slide open on Maia’s neural command, giving the team full access. Maia and Rommie immediately get to work, isolating the damaged decks, restoring life support, and killing the emergency beacon before it draws any unwanted company.
Rommie notes that the ship’s database has been corrupted by whatever it encountered out there, but she has turned up something very interesting. When the atemporal entity entered this reality, knocking the Waldorf Astoria out of FTL, the freighter’s sensors recorded and analyzed the event as it happened. According to this analysis, the rift it passed through carries the same harmonics as the residual traces of their own crossings into this universe. This could well be their key to getting home. But the data is fragmentary and corrupted, and it will take some time to decipher.
Daniel, at that point, reminds them of the lone life sign a few sections over, still flickering but now growing fainter. He wants it made the priority. Maia informs them that the Waldorf Astoria was on an unmanned long haul run, and warns this life sign is likely the entity she warned them about. She wants to accompany them but there is a much more pressing issue that demands her attention.
One of the consoles reveals the anomaly’s pulses have fried the core’s automated containment and regulation, and the reactor is climbing towards a breach, maybe less than an hour from critical. It can’t be stopped from the bridge. Someone has to head to engineering and vent the drive by hand.
What do you do?
A) Wait for Rommie to decipher the corrupted database and retrieve a potential clue to the way home.
B) Investigate the life sign. Reach it before it fades, whatever it turns out to be.
C) Go to engineering and vent the drive. Save the ship.
D) Split the team. O’Neill’s call. He and Daniel will investigate the life sign, McKay accompanies Maia to engineering, while Rommie stays on the bridge to decipher the corrupted data. Everything gets done, but it does spread them thin.
CHOOSE!
[END OF ACT THREE]
Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.
First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse
[An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter. On board, they discover a service android named Maia who requests their assistance in ridding the ship of an intruder in exchange for her cooperation.]
You agree to help track down and deal with the intruder. Satisfied, Maia leads them off down a dimly lit corridor towards the bridge. They walk in silence, only the hiss of venting steam and the ringing of their boots on the metal grating.
Finally, McKay: “Y’know, there’s a Waldorf Astoria on my planet.”
“Does it also possess Dual Kessler-Vann X-440 fusion torches, cold-gas plus eight monopropellant cluster thrusters, and twin Mark-18 closed-cycle fission reactors?”asks Maia.
“Uh, no,”McKay reluctantly admits. “But it serves a pretty popular salad.”
Suddenly, something skitters overhead, mechanical and spider-quick. McKay flinches. “What the – “
“Where are we going?”asks O’Neill.
Indeed, the team is headed off course. Rommie points out that if they’re going to the bridge, they’re headed in the wrong direction. Maia agrees. Her neural link to the ship, she explains, has flagged a containment leak from the back-up reactor that’s flooded the compartment ahead. “I carry manufacturer-installed radiation shielding,”she informs them. “You do not, and the exposure could be lethal.” So she’s routing them the long way around.
She walks on a few steps, stops, and looks back. “Coming?”she asks.
What do you do?
A) Push straight through.
B) Follow her detour.
C) Hold, and send Rommie to confirm the leak.
CHOOSE!
[Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.]
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Basically, "Mr. Helmet" can be used as an Exocraft! 😂✨
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We found a couple new things in @Valheimgame. A "Ruin Black Forest" biome with lots of stone ruins and only short fir trees, and then ran into one of the new swamp baddies. The sound for the Writhen is SO SCARY OMG.
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First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse
[An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter. On board, they discover a service android named Maia who requests permission to interface with Rommie in order to confirm the team’s peaceful intent.]
The team is split on Maia’s request, but leaning toward allowing it. But, in the end, the decision isn’t theirs to make as a group. O’Neill turns: “Rommie, it’s your call.”
Rommie holds Maia’s gaze and doesn’t hesitate. “Let’s do it.”
Maia steps forward and the two androids lock eyes. Rommie compartmentalizes and walls off her memory stores, then lowers the rest of her defenses. A beat, and she feels the scan: a delicate pass over the open data, read-only. It lasts only seconds before the connection breaks.
Maia blinks, then smiles. “Thank you.” She turns to the others.
She tells them that she was in the middle of a scheduled charge cycle when the ship suddenly dropped out of FTL. Given that she has only now come back online, her time off-line has left her memory stores incomplete.
What she does know she has assembled in the last few moments, through her neural link to the ship and a perusal of the automated incident report. The report tells her this much. The Waldorf Astoria suffered sudden and catastrophic failures throughout the ship after contact with an atemporal force during FTL transit. Sometime after, an entity of unknown origin gained access to the freighter.
Maia offers a trade. She will lead them to the bridge and give them access to ship-wide systems, enough to restore the freighter to full structural and operational integrity. In return, she asks for their help in purging the ship of the intruder.
As you consider her offer, she produces a weapon, charges it, and heads for the exit.
Do you agree to the deal?
Yes
No
CHOOSE!
[Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.]
First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse
[An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter. On board, they discover a service android named Maia who is suspicious of our team’s intent.]
“Daniel,”says Jack, cocking his head towards the android. “You want to get in here?”
Daniel steps up to address the android: “Hi, Maia. I’m Daniel. My friends and I have boarded your ship to render assistance after picking up your distress call. So we’re only here to help. No plundering and/or pillaging.”
“And yet you are armed,”notes Maia.
“A precautionary measure for our protection,”Daniel assures her. “We had no idea what to expect when we boarded.” A beat. “I’d like to propose we work together to bring your ship’s systems back online. How does that sound?”
Maia responds: “Your heart rate has remained stable, your respiration even, and your galvanic skin response showed no spike. I detect no physiological markers of duplicity.” A pause. “Your eyes also read as sincere. And a very clear blue. I find that difficult to disregard.”
“Yeah, he gets that a lot,”notes O’Neill as McKay rolls his eyes.
“I am inclined to believe you,”Maia continues. “But your body tells me only what you believe, not what your companions intend.” Her gaze turns to Rommie: “An android keeps a record of all it witnesses. Allow me to interface with your colleague so that I can confirm what you have told me. Do that, and I will help you access the bridge and ship’s systems.”
Do you allow Maia to interface with Rommie?
YES
NO
CHOOSE!
[Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.]
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I think I synthesised my E3 No Man's Sky diplo into an absolute giant!! 😱 @NoMansSky @hellogames @Griff_
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Christy Stevens ᐰ retweeted
First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse
[An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter. On board, they discover a service android named Maia who is suspicious of our team’s intent.]
“Daniel,”says Jack, cocking his head towards the android. “You want to get in here?”
Daniel steps up to address the android: “Hi, Maia. I’m Daniel. My friends and I have boarded your ship to render assistance after picking up your distress call. So we’re only here to help. No plundering and/or pillaging.”
“And yet you are armed,”notes Maia.
“A precautionary measure for our protection,”Daniel assures her. “We had no idea what to expect when we boarded.” A beat. “I’d like to propose we work together to bring your ship’s systems back online. How does that sound?”
Maia responds: “Your heart rate has remained stable, your respiration even, and your galvanic skin response showed no spike. I detect no physiological markers of duplicity.” A pause. “Your eyes also read as sincere. And a very clear blue. I find that difficult to disregard.”
“Yeah, he gets that a lot,”notes O’Neill as McKay rolls his eyes.
“I am inclined to believe you,”Maia continues. “But your body tells me only what you believe, not what your companions intend.” Her gaze turns to Rommie: “An android keeps a record of all it witnesses. Allow me to interface with your colleague so that I can confirm what you have told me. Do that, and I will help you access the bridge and ship’s systems.”
Do you allow Maia to interface with Rommie?
YES
NO
CHOOSE!
[Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.]
First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse
[An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter. On board, they discover a containment field housing a dormant android and must decide whether or not to awaken it.]
Captain’s Log, supplemental. The away team is still aboard the derelict freighter. The anomaly’s pulses have been playing havoc with our communications, and their reports reach us in fragments, when they reach us at all. A simple boarding has turned complicated, and I won’t have a clear picture until I can raise them again.
Onboard the ship –
You let the containment cycle finish.
The field drops and the android comes online, her impassive gaze clocking the weapons trained on her.
“Greetings, I am a level-5 service android entrusted with operations aboard the freighter Waldorf Astoria, on its twelve hundredth and fourth voyage. My designation is Maia 3352 and I am property of Traugott Corporation, as is the Waldorf Astoria. Any attempt to unlawfully acquire, interfere with, or damage this vessel or its contents will result in swift legal action. You are strongly advised to disembark.”
She waits. Your move. What do you do?
A – Put her back under. Flip the containment field back on and return her to stasis.
B – Let Daniel talk to her. Explain the situation, and suggest you work together to restore ship functions.
C – Have Rommie attempt a neural link to seize control of the android. Fast, if it works, but forcing a peer AI is a gamble.
CHOOSE!
[Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.]
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He's only gone and feckin done it....
SHENRON!
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I have an itch to try a NMS build that's like actually OUT of my Sklll level but I feel like if I could get it maybe 50% right it could be my coolest ever.
Well here goes
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