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Story
TracNav(TracNav/TOC_Development)?
The structure of the Story is pretty loose at the moment. Things written on this page will be put onto different pages and into designated chapters once they're thought out properly and reach a riper state.
Tutorial-Level
The Story starts around Jupiter. The player (insert player name here) arrives in the Jupiter orbit with his pilot steering the ship during the interplanetary travel from Earth to Jupiter. The purpose of the travel is business. The player is working for an engineering company which built a new technology to improve the gas miners. This would be the first test of the prototype under realistic circumstances and in the environment the final product will be used in. The customer is RedGas.
Upon arrival the auto-pilot which assists during interplanetary flights switches into a less restricted state and allows the pilot to navigate freely in a planets orbit. While the pilot of the ship checks the systems, the player is advised to test if the navigation works. This is where the tutorial kicks in and explains the player how to steer the ship.
The pilot would then give green light with the navigation system and advises you to fly to the meeting point. Since the new mining technology was too large for a normal ship, it was brought with a small transporter with which the player is going to meet next.
During the flight to the meeting point the player receives a distress call from the transporter. The pilot enables the weapon systems and the player helps the transporter to get rid of a couple of pirate ships that wanted to steal the technology. The pirates either get destroyed or flee, while one of the pirates may drop a pick up, which will help the player to understand the pick-up system.
The transporter and the player will then join up in a formation (advanced flight training) and fly to a space station of the RedGas corporation and dock.
This will end the tutorial level.
Story Outline - Jupiter (Chapter 1)
The protagonist controlled by the player arrives in the Jupiter system through his work as an engineer of a small company that specialized on gas mining technology. The company has a contract with Ganymede Energy Provision (GEP) and the player is to deliver a new radiation emitter with which the fuel production can be significantly increased.
On arrival the player can barely avoid to lose the emitter to a couple of pirates. The emitter is then tested with one of the newer GEP gas miners. During the test that first looks very promising, a major attacks by pirates occurs and the crew of the gas miner is forced to abandon ship. The protagonist survives this attack as well and can save himself/herself, but the gas miner with the emitter seems to have fallen into the pirates' hands.
The incident raises a lot of question from GEP and the protagonist's company. Because of this the protagonist gets fired and has to find a new job as freelancer. GEP starts to investigate the matter on its own and starts to increase its spying efforts on RedGas Corporation (RGC) their rival and main suspect for the attack.
The initial mutual spying and sabotage attempts increase the already high tensions between the two major gas mining companies. This results in a full blown war in the Jupiter system, while the other two systems (Earth and Mars) are in need for new fuel supplies.
The situation gets even more complicated when GEP is starting to find evidence that the protagonist may be involved in the initial attack on the gas miner during the testing of the new emitter. Even though the protagonist doesn't really have a motive for the crime, he is forced to flee the system and find refuge in the Mars system.
All the while there is a second story line developing rather independently in the Jupiter system. There is a big ship with scientists that are about to start an expedition to Saturn to analyze a weird anomaly. While the expedition requires a lot of preparation and supplies they also encounter Noxonian spaceships arriving from Saturn. The scientists analyze the Noxons, which are fearlessly attacking the Jupiter system. The Noxons are few though and never endanger the system significantly. They are rather a nuisance in the daily life of a pilot in the Jupiter system. The scientists can trace back the source of the Noxons to Venus. However they seem to come from the anomaly. Shortly before the protagonist has to flee from the Jupiter system, the scientists are ready to start the expedition to Saturn. They are protected by others who flee from the full blown war that is going on between RGC and GEP.
Ideas
Ideas have been collected and whole essays have been written. Still, we must check in how far these can be realized in the game as it is now. Older story-related pages are:
