Bron 0 Share Posted November 25, 2019 so i had a sort of fever dream a while back, probably the result of meds for a virus i got, combined with too much Astroneer and too little daylight. thought id share some of the strangest parts with you guys. it may act as inspiration for some. let it be a warning for others. ASTRONEER: THE NEXT PHASE it starts with a rain of meteorites. something has entered our system and has flown by many of the worlds, showering them with debris both small and large. the small stuff looks like nothing we've seen as yet in the system. Ditto the large debris, but these are few and far between and are clearly hollow. their melted exterior has markings unlike those of our own words, cryptic and alien but clearly some kind of language. finding what these symbols equate to becomes a key to opening these capsules. inside we find components to a device, each one strange. we find the parts, bring them back to base and slowly create a strange device.... a dimensional portal that lets us cross into a new universe... a new system of planets, orbiting a binary star.... each world different and strange... a world with a surface densely clustered with moving, living shapes.... a world with an atmosphere thick, like a distorting piece of glass... a world tormented with electrical storms, but rich in beautiful crystal sculptures.... a world whose surface is covered in the broken ruins of a planet wide city, bizarre and grand as if populated by giants...one world seems hauntingly familiar, yet wrong... it's as if someone took a world from our dimension and turned it inside out... the outside is crafted like the core, a dense grid of purple energy, yet below this is stone and earth, with caverns and minerals....beneath this still, at the core, a great empty chamber with an inner sun, and the inner surface covered with trees, mountains and flora... another world seems wholly artificial, like a great machine that stopped working millenia ago, it's surface unresponsive to the tool but tunnels and passageways dive inside it to hidden treasures.... the new language can, in time be understood enough to describe the raw materials analogous to those from our own world, but some of the power forms such as RTG's don't seem to function properly here.... studying the remains of these ancient civilisations give us new research opportunities, for technologies more suited to this world.... geothermal power must be found and tapped to run bases.... new materials and new combinations of materials allow the crafting of gravity devices, such as gravity engines for power... and gravity manipulators, allowing some of the huge remains to be moved and configured.... eventually a new portal device can be constructed, to allow the return to our original world - or perhaps to move on, to discover the place those beings eventually left this universe for. have to say, i'd play the crap out of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvhorus 0 Share Posted November 26, 2019 18 hours ago, Bron said: have to say, i'd play the crap out of that. You and me both... +1! 18 hours ago, Bron said: studying the remains of these ancient civilisations give us new research opportunities, for technologies more suited to this world.... This should have been part of the game already when they introduced the purple structures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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