Moon problem

[|Red|Mane|13|]

What a hell happend with MOON in the ending movie???

[Yolo3500]

Big whoops to whoever built the experimental VOHLE Engine. Nobody expected that using the VOHLE Engine would destroy the surroundings.

[Hapless Citizen]

I"m assuming since the guy who invented it new earth was doomed and the moon was the closest nearby reaction mass it was designed that way

[r4tt3xx]

shoosh spoilers ......

[Yolo3500]

Originally posted by Hapless Citizen:

I"m assuming since the guy who invented it new earth was doomed and the moon was the closest nearby reaction mass it was designed that way

I highly doubt that but who knows maybe he wanted to do it or just didn't expect a side effect.

[Rune Trantor]

On one hand, they had the foresight to move the station to Luna before using an experimental drive.
On the other, maybe send the station to like, Neptune next time.

But yeah, I sort of agree with the other person that they knew.
The CEO speaks in a very cryptic way how this is the 'epilogue' of Earth and all that, as if Earth is about to go boom.
Despite the fact that visually it looks pretty okay. Not even flooded like in Hardspace Shipbreaker or something.

[Liobuster]

It felt a lot like the beginning of frostpunk where the outpost is suddenly flooded with the families of the workers cause the origin is failing to sustain itself :D
with how the last thing you see form home is a shuttle full of additional personnel and food supplies

[Rune Trantor]

Yeah. Though the store page description does say others survive the disaster, so I imagine the world manages to evacuate some people before the moon pieces rain down and wipe it all off.

Do wonder if we stay in Proxima, or we can explore around an area of the galaxy for a new home. It would be a shame to not use the FTL drive again.

[SporkofDeath]

Well, realistically it was an entirely avoidable accident that the executives just ignored the possibility of because it was cheaper to do so, but this is a video game so it was probably part of some nefarious scheme by the CEO to force humanity into becoming a spaceborne race or something.

I'm just making a wild guess cause I haven't played the demo yet.

[HarlequinTiefling]

IMO the CEO saying the earth is doomed is very short sighted. are we expecting to find earth like planets in other systems? if not then we have to build space stations which can be done in Sol.

[Rune Trantor]

Not only short sighted, as we could develop the tools and technologies to restore Earth, but also rather cryptic and a bit TOO on point with what is about to happen. Which is why I feel he knew this was gonna happen.

[Magnus Bellator]

I don't know about it being on purpose, rather it would be even more interesting if it was an accident since it was the first ever test of that type of technology. Could even end up being something that makes it even worse than the damage to the moon (which is already basically an extinction event.) With no one trusting the only people with the inter-space technology to attempt a second launch.

[☥ Docdra ☥]

I don't think it was cryptic at all - based on the speech, the prior narration, etc., it seemed a foregone conclusion the planet was doomed, which was why his company and others were working towards interstellar travel to begin with.

However, why would the moon base be abandoned and why did it seem Mars only had a token base - it would have been easier to colonize both of them using resources in-system that obviously were easy to get to based on the technology they already had.

I hope that entire thing isn't just some shallow plot point though to indicate that you're now cut off from Earth, so there won't be any help or supplies forthcoming. An actual mystery to solve within the game would be nice.

[粉紅切開都是黑]

Originally posted by ☥ Docdra ☥:

I don't think it was cryptic at all - based on the speech, the prior narration, etc., it seemed a foregone conclusion the planet was doomed, which was why his company and others were working towards interstellar travel to being with.

However, why would the moon base be abandoned and why did it seem Mars only had a token base - it would have been easier to colonize both of them using resources in-system that obviously were easy to get to based on the technology they already had.

I hope that entire thing isn't just some shallow plot point though to indicate that you're now cut off from Earth, so there won't be any help or supplies forthcoming. An actual mystery to solve within the game would be nice.

Based on the teaser, UN did send ships to outer-space for colonization, but failed.

[Thiil]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1113120/announcements/detail/2996564740766036035

[Hawk]

Dont like working for a CEO that destroyed the moon in order to fulfill his vision... so find another Administrator . I quit