story & narrative

Story :

Once upon a time a colonisation spaceship on its way to an unknown habitable planet, boarding 200 humans in stasis plus plants and animals.
On arrival, right on the moment the spaceship is entering the planet atmosphere, a mysterious force deprives the ship of its energy. The ship crashes, all humans and animals are killed either by the crash or the failure of their stasis system.

The spaceship stay there during hundreds of years, until one day, a new colonisation spaceship arrives in the planet orbit. This spaceship commander has to make sure that the previous ship failure was due to an internal error. It desperatly tries to find any surviving communication system on the crashed ship, and the only thing it can find is a pet robot unable to speak more than "bip bip" or to do anything but move around and plug/unplug itself.

Only the central intelligence system of the crashed ship will be able to give clues to the orbital spaceship as to the cause of the crash, therefore the little robot mission will be to roam the ship looking for emergency batteries in order to reenable the power supply of the central intelligence.

The ship is divided in areas ( biomes ) which are locked away from the player because the doors are unpowered. As soon as the player gather enough emergency batteries to power a new area, the door unlock and the player can find new puzzle rewarding new emergency batteries and new areas to unlock. The central intelligence is in the last accessible area.

Along the way, the player will be able to gather emergency reports of various machinery, which will give clues as to the true reason of the crash. Gathering emergency reports is optional, and gathering them all will lead to an alternative end.

STORY SPOILER !!

Endings :

• If not enough emergency reports, the central intelligence is awaken, and fly off the ship to deep space along with the little robot ( sacrificed ). Reassured about the reason of the crash, the orbital ship can land and colonize this new planet.
• If enough emergency reports are gathered, the robot finds a means to tell the orbital ship about the central intelligence corrupted nature. The orbital ship is reassured, lands, and celebrate the little robot as their hero.