Astraeus-Lunar IVThe most advanced space station ever designed.
It is so technologically advanced that almost every single piece of maintenance is done by robots, without human interference. For the most part. While the robots maintain the space station, the humans take long naps in cryo-stasis, frozen solid in a state of both permanent life and permanent death.
However, there is one little naggle to the whole idea of an entirely robotic maintenance: It occasionally malfunctions. In order to work around this, the station automatically wakes up the astronauts for one day each year to have them perform their own maintenance, mostly on the maintenance robots. This involves repairing damage, de-bugging code, and fighting off the occasional boarding party.
The Astraeus-Lunar IV, or the ALIV, often called "Alive", is slowly heading towards Mars. It's only purpose is to escort a total of six astronauts, three males and three females, towards its destination. Upon reaching the surface, the crew's objective is to set up a matter-transposition-reflexive mainframe, more commonly referred to as a teleporter. This will allow them to bring further human population to the red planet, and to colonize it as a whole. The main reason of this expansion is that Earth has been tapped almost dry: Iron and Nickel have become valued commodities while Copper is practically a thing of the past. A few drops of Oil would spark a world war, and most of the oceans have been refined into fresh water for consumption by a bloated population. The common people think that once humanity arrives on Mars all members of humanity will travel to the planet and colonize it anew, like a New Earth; Only world leaders and the astronauts know that less then 0.001% of the human population will actually be allowed on Mars: This includes the most physically fit, mentally fit, and of course, all the world leaders.
Your job, as the Astronauts, is to obey the commands of your on-ship AI, to obey the commands relayed to you by the world leaders, to reach Mars, and to set up a self-sustaining base on the planet before deploying and activating the teleporter stored on the ship.
You won't be alone out there: Several terrorist groups and a few of the countries which have descended into anarchy have already launched several small shuttles on an intercept course to your craft, and the computer has been set to wake you the moment they set foot on the ship. As this was not foreseen, the ship itself was not equipped to deal with intruders, and you are armed with only minimal weapons: A small handgun was included in every astronaut's locker, but the real weapons will be the systems of the ship itself. Opening bulkheads and airlocks to jettison intruders, deactivating gravity at the right time to send them hurtling into obstacles, and re-working on board systems into traps. Your minds will need to be as prepared as your weapons to survive this.
Good luck.
You are humanity's last hope.
Don't let it down.
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Six players will be accepted. As per the lore of this game, half must be male and half must be female. At least one must be a biologist and at least two must be mechanics. Architects and guards would be useful.
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((I hope that this game does not die like all the others I have created have. I do indeed hope....))
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