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Seedship is a free browser game about playing a lone AI pilot leading the last frozen humans to a new home after the destruction of Earth.

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Spoiler: My first ending. (click to show/hide)

Planet Garden
Atmosphere:   Breathable
Gravity:   Low
Temperature:   Moderate
Water:   Planet-wide ocean
Resources:   Poor
Features:
Poisonous plants
Useful animals
Bronze Age civilisation

Garden's ocean tosses with slow, tall waves, beneath a blue sky. The colonists live in tall stone-walled cities beneath the planet's open sky, on platforms floating on the planet-wide ocean. The cities are dominated by temples to the state religion which controls every aspect of people's lives. The colonists' culture mostly ignores the native inhabitants, who live in their own communities in other parts of the planet. In the first city stand monuments to the 163 colonists who did not survive the journey, the 190 more who died building the first settlement, and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

[Kadzar]

Spoiler: Not my best ending, but maybe my favorite (click to show/hide)

Date: Thu Nov 23 2017

Planet Arid
Atmosphere:   Breathable
Gravity:   Moderate
Temperature:   Hot
Water:   Trace
Resources:   Poor
 
Features:
Barren moon
Edible plants
Useful animals
Mesolithic civilisation

Arid's alien forests stretch away beneath a blue sky. The colonists live in stone-walled cities with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, gathered around water production plants. They live lives of peace and spiritual fulfilment beyond the dreams of their ancestors on Earth, guided by a combination of human and alien philosophy. Traders and diplomats from the planet's native nations are occasionally seen in the colonists' communities. In the first city stand monuments to the 52 colonists who did not survive the journey and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   500
Planet temperature:   250
Planet water:   0
Planet resources:   250
Survivors after landing:   948
Survivors after settlement construction:   948
Final technology level (Medieval):   1250
Native relations (Friendly):   1000
Final culture (Cosmic Enlightenment):   3000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   600
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1060
Total:   10306

I like how you can basically fail technologically but still build a utopian society.

[Egan_BW]

Hmm. First planet I find is very cold and generally inhospitable... but has edible plants. Wish I knew how common that was...
Guess I don't want my colonists living on a shithole covered in things they can technically eat... moving on.

Next one has... Breathable atmosphere, plants and animals! And no water. Wonder how these life forms live without that...
Probe states that though there are no good resources on the planet surface, there is a metal-rich moon. Edible plants again, and non-harmful animals. No explanation as to their internal workings, boo. I wanted to do some science, even if we're not staying here. :(
...And we're not. Too cold and too much gravity. Next.

We nearly run into a comet, and in avoiding it take some minor damage to the atmosphere sensor (~3%). Don't think this will be much of a problem.

This planet is ALSO very cold, just like the last two. Hopefully this pattern does not hold up, I don't like the idea of poor little humans being cold. :(
Also the atmosphere is corrosive according to my slightly damaged sensors. All around a crappy lifeless planet. Next.

I've tweaked my sensors to pick up on extreme temperatures from interstellar distance, so we hopefully won't run into any more frozen hellholes. :)
Took very minor damage to the resources scanner. No problem.

This planet has both breathable atmosphere and oceans! And animal life, and apparently structures on the surface? Oh man, I've GOT too see this up close!
Aw. Probe says the structures were just normal geological formations. But! This place has edible plants and potentially useful animals! Practically a second earth here, even if it's a bit hot and light...
Oh yeah, and no resources. But humans don't technically NEED those, right? My decision is made.

Spoiler: datadump? (click to show/hide)

Planet Garden
Atmosphere:   Breathable
Gravity:   Low
Temperature:   Hot
Water:   Oceans
Resources:   None
 
Features:
Edible plants
Useful animals
Regular geological formations

Garden's tall alien plants reach hundreds of metres into a blue sky. The colonists live in tall stone-walled cities with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, beside rivers that flow into the planet's oceans. The cities are built around parliament buildings, where assemblies of citizens rule for the good of all. In the first city stands a monument to the the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   250
Planet temperature:   250
Planet water:   500
Planet resources:   0
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   1000
Final technology level (Neolithic):   600
Final culture (Egalitarian Republic):   2000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   300
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:   7400

Well, all 1000 colonists who got frozen made it, so that's a win right there.


I wouldn't call this one a win, but it scored higher than my other one and is a somewhat interesting setting:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planet Arcadia
Atmosphere:   Marginal
Gravity:   Very low
Temperature:   Very hot
Water:   Planet-wide ocean
Resources:   Rich
 
Features:
Edible plants
High-tech ruins

Arcadia's ocean tosses with slow, kilometres-high waves, beneath a pale blue sky. The colonists live in towering high-tech cities under airtight domes, on platforms floating on the planet-wide ocean. Poverty, exploitation and crime are rife, and the corrupt elected government does little to alleviate them. In the first city stand monuments to the 339 colonists who died building the first settlement and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   250
Planet gravity:   0
Planet temperature:   0
Planet water:   250
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   661
Final technology level (Post-Singularity):   3000
Final culture (Corrupt Democracy):   1500
Surviving scientific database × 10:   1140
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:

High-tech cities floating on a massive boiling ocean, with corrupt politics! Practically a cyberpunk dream.

[Darkening Kaos]

     This was the third world visited after two with toxic atmospheres.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planet Garden

Atmosphere: Marginal 
Gravity: Low 
Temperature: Moderate 
Water: Oceans
Resources: Rich

Features:
 Outstanding beauty
Edible plants
High-tech ruins
 
 Garden's tall alien plants reach hundreds of metres into  a pale blue sky. The colonists live in tall    high-tech cities  with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, beside rivers that flow into the planet's oceans. They spend their time pursuing art, leisure, and spiritual fulfilment, while automatic machines take care of their material needs. In the first city stands a monument to the the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere: 250 
Planet gravity: 250 
Planet temperature: 500 
Planet water: 500 
Planet resources: 500 
Survivors after landing: 1000 
Survivors after settlement construction: 1000 
Final technology level (Post-Singularity): 3000 
Final culture (Post-Scarcity Utopia): 2500 
Surviving scientific database × 10: 1270 
Surviving cultural database × 10: 1000 
Total: 11770

Spoiler: Other Stats (click to show/hide)

Colonists: 1000 

Scanners
Atmosphere: 100%   
Gravity: 100%   
Temperature: 100%   
Water: 100%   
Resources: 100%   
Surface probes: 9 

Systems
Landing: 100%   
Construction: 100%   
 
Databases
Scientific: 127%   
Cultural: 100%   

     I think I would classify that as a good run.  Better than the previous missions where I lost up to 50% of the colonists.

[wereboar]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planet Arcadia
Atmosphere:   Breathable
Gravity:   Moderate
Temperature:   Cold
Water:   Ice caps
Resources:   Poor
 
Features:
Metal-rich moon
Outstanding beauty
Edible plants
Useful animals

Arcadia's alien forests stretch away beneath a blue sky. The colonists live in cities of steel and glass with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, by lakes of water melted from the planet's ice caps. They live lives of peace and spiritual fulfilment beyond the dreams of their ancestors on Earth, guided by a combination of human and alien philosophy. In the first city stand monuments to the 54 colonists who did not survive the journey, the 2 more who died building the first settlement, and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

My first run. Looks like a success.

[Man of Paper]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Planet El Dorado
Atmosphere:   Marginal
Gravity:   Moderate
Temperature:   Moderate
Water:   Trace
Resources:   Rich
Features:
   Outstanding beauty
Edible plants
Animal life
Paleolithic civilisation

El Dorado's alien forests stretch away beneath a pale blue sky. The colonists live in cities of steel and glass with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, gathered around water production plants. They spend their time pursuing art, leisure, and spiritual fulfilment, while automatic machines take care of their material needs. The colonists' culture mostly ignores the native inhabitants, who live in their own communities in other parts of the planet. In the first city stand monuments to the 80 colonists who did not survive the journey, the 135 more who died building the first settlement, and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   250
Planet gravity:   500
Planet temperature:   500
Planet water:   0
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   920
Survivors after settlement construction:   785
Final technology level (Information Age):   2000
Native relations (Isolationism):   0
Final culture (Post-Scarcity Utopia):   2500
Surviving scientific database × 10:   1000
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:   9955

First run. Color me interested.


Second Run, took the first planet and wound up with the neat imagery the write up for this one conjures up:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Planet Garden
Atmosphere:   Marginal
Gravity:   Very low
Temperature:   Very hot
Water:   Planet-wide ocean
Resources:   None
Features:
   Unstable moon
Plant life

Garden's ocean tosses with slow, kilometres-high waves, beneath a pale blue sky. The colonists live in wandering hunter-gatherer tribes under airtight domes, on platforms floating on the planet-wide ocean. Each tribe is ruled by a chieftain, who guides the people as wisely as he or she is able. In the ruins of the first city stand monuments to the 241 colonists who died building the first settlement and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   250
Planet gravity:   0
Planet temperature:   0
Planet water:   250
Planet resources:   0
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   759
Final technology level (Pre-Stone Age):   0
Final culture (Benevolent Chieftains):   1500
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:   4759

[ThtblovesDF]

I tried so hard to go as many turns as possible with sensor upgrades and letting non-important systems get hit (like who needs atmo scanners if you already know it'll be breathable)... and got to around 7 000 -9 000 score

and then, just by luck the 2end planet:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[etgfrog]

Spoiler: first playthrough (click to show/hide)

Date: Thu Nov 23 2017

Planet Oceanus
Atmosphere:   Breathable
Gravity:   High
Temperature:   Hot
Water:   Planet-wide ocean
Resources:   Rich
Features:
   Unstable moon
Outstanding ugliness
Poisonous plants

Oceanus's calm ocean that stretches to the horizon a blue sky. The colonists live in squat stone-walled cities with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, on platforms floating on the planet-wide ocean. The cities are dominated by temples to the state religion which controls every aspect of people's lives. In the first city stand monuments to the 237 colonists who died building the first settlement and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   250
Planet temperature:   250
Planet water:   250
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   763
Final technology level (Medieval):   1250
Final culture (Oppressive Theocracy):   1000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   600
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:   7363

This was before I knew to use a survey probe on a good candidate.

Spoiler: best score (click to show/hide)

Date: Thu Nov 23 2017

Planet Arcadia
Atmosphere:   Breathable
Gravity:   Very low
Temperature:   Hot
Water:   Oceans
Resources:   Rich
Features:
   Edible plants
Useful animals
High-tech ruins

Arcadia's impossibly slender alien plants reach kilometres into a blue sky. The colonists live in towering high-tech cities with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, beside rivers that flow into the planet's oceans. They spend their time pursuing art, leisure, and spiritual fulfilment, while automatic machines take care of their material needs. In the first city stand monuments to the 61 colonists who died building the first settlement and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   0
Planet temperature:   250
Planet water:   500
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   939
Final technology level (Post-Singularity):   3000
Final culture (Post-Scarcity Utopia):   2500
Surviving scientific database × 10:   1100
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:   11289

Who needs gravity anyways?

I do need to test out if landing systems effects much if you land on a very low gravity planet.

[Criptfeind]

Got 10689 on my first one, a nice little planet full of minerals, natives, useful animals, and lead melting temperatures that require the humans to live inside sealed high tech cities for their whole lives.

Second one was 10024. Got a post singularity alien tech using society floating on top of the oceans of a planet very well suited for human life (abet full of giant predators) but apparently starting with 400 less people (mostly from said predators) caused the society to somehow devolve into a corrupt democracy (which doesn't really make sense to me but okay)

Last one was 11845. Landed on a planet perfect for humanity except for the relatively low resources and scorching temperature, but luckily there were caves that were both insulated and air tight, so humanity moved into those. Resources were low, but a metal rich moon provided everything humanity needs to maintain their current levels of technology. Their interactions with alien races, both the advanced but extinct race that left ruins dotted about the surface of the planet and the primitive races that still inhabit it has accelerated the cultural development of the human race into Cosmic Enlightenment.

[ndkid]

I was pretty happy with my second run-through, and it's 10526 score. Bounty had a toxic, very hot atmosphere, but its airtight caves helped, and its alien artifacts meant humanity ended up with post-singularity technology. I have no doubt, with the abundant resources, they will manage to scatter themselves to even more stars, perhaps even using a descendant of my AI to shepherd their children to new locales.

[ThtblovesDF]

I went for 0 cilivisation and high tech, so my people nuked the primitives and then each other. Good stuff.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Planet Honeycomb
Atmosphere:   Marginal
Gravity:   Moderate
Temperature:   Moderate
Water:   Oceans
Resources:   Rich
Features:
   Metal-rich moon
Insulated caves
Plant life
Animal life
Mesolithic civilisation

With the cultural database destroyed, those born on the new world know nothing about Earth's history and culture besides what the first colonists can pass on in person. The heavy losses sustained by the colonists make building a new society more difficult. The colony splits into several large nations which wage war with one another, until reckless leaders set off a nuclear war that destroys the infrastructure of civilisation. The surviving colonists live on in a post-nuclear wasteland. What remains of the cultural database is lost in the disaster, and what the colonists remember of Earth they confuse with stories of the pre-war colony.

[Kanil]

First playthrough went pretty well. Surveyed an alien ship, and my fourth planet was really nice.

Space is easy, just get lucky and sacrifice some of your settlers to xenosharks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Planet Arcadia
Atmosphere:   Breathable
Gravity:   High
Temperature:   Moderate
Water:   Planet-wide ocean
Resources:   Rich
Features:
   Barren moon
Plant life
Dangerous animals
Information Age civilisation

Arcadia's calm ocean that stretches to the horizon a blue sky. The colonists live in squat high-tech cities beneath the planet's open sky, on platforms floating on the planet-wide ocean. They live lives of peace and spiritual fulfilment beyond the dreams of their ancestors on Earth, guided by a combination of human and alien philosophy. Many of the planet's native inhabitants live in the human communities, and the colonists' culture has been enriched by alien influences. In the first city stand monuments to the 212 colonists who died building the first settlement and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   250
Planet temperature:   500
Planet water:   250
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   788
Final technology level (Post-Singularity):   3000
Native relations (Integrated Societies):   2000
Final culture (Cosmic Enlightenment):   3000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   1190
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1390
Total:   14368

[umiman]

I started this up. Read all the stuff about being the last hope for humanity.

The very first planet to come up was.



Mmm, yes. My sophisticated AI tells me that this is the perfect place for humanity. No food. No air. No gravity. No heat. No resources. And ice everywhere.

Brilliant. I press the button.



...

Wat?

How... how did they live? What do they eat? And they enjoy it?! They are ruled by benevolent monarchs?!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Score
Planet atmosphere:   0
Planet gravity:   0
Planet temperature:   0
Planet water:   250
Planet resources:   0
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   631
Final technology level (Neolithic):   600
Final culture (Benevolent Monarchy):   1500
Surviving scientific database × 10:   300
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:   5281

Fuck!

-----------------

Okay, round two. I may have failed the first time, but thanks to my time machine I can go back and correct this mistake.



Yes! Yes! This is perfect! Now there's even no water mwahahahaha! There's some plants, but with no water they will die in moments. And they'll be so hot they'll be starving for the water they'll never get! My genius knows no bounds!

Press the button!



Are you fucki-... Wha-? How?! How did they live?!!!!

Isn't this even better than before?! Now they live in the modern age what? I-.. But-... Wha?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Score
Planet atmosphere:   0
Planet gravity:   0
Planet temperature:   0
Planet water:   0
Planet resources:   250
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   531
Final technology level (Information Age):   2000
Final culture (Rule by Corporations):   1000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   1000
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:   6781

Fuck!!

[Akura]

The main thing I'm wondering is, how do they establish a population with only 1000 colonists? Don't you need around 10,000-40,000 to avoid inbreeding and ensure genetic diversity?

[umiman]

Alright. One last try.



It has nothing. It straight up has nothing. It even has poison plants and a hostile civilization this time. There's no way they can survive this. There is literally nothing for them here.



... not a single person died.

... it's a Utopian society.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Score
Planet atmosphere:   0
Planet gravity:   250
Planet temperature:   250
Planet water:   0
Planet resources:   0
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   1000
Final technology level (Atomic Age):   1750
Native relations (Isolationism):   0
Final culture (Post-Scarcity Utopia):   2500
Surviving scientific database × 10:   1000
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:   8750