conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The newest ship and fanciest fliers won't stand up to deep-space exploration, where your own thoughts are as much the enemy as any Undiscovereds. No one all the way normal would choose to go out past the colonial boundary. But that's okay, because no one all the way normal would choose to go there in the *Dauntless*. 
  
  Sign on for the stories. Stay for the secrets.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A veteran of interstellar travel from the first generation of FTL-capable starships.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Experienced
  
  Suggested Weakness: Stubborn
conversations.prefix: Veteran Astronaut:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A green newbie embarking on an interstellar mission for the first time.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Intrepid
  
  Suggested Weakness: Inexperienced
conversations.prefix: Rookie Astronaut:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Curious and cautious, eager to explore the cosmos and live to tell the tales.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Highly Perceptive
  
  Suggested Weakness: Hesitant
conversations.prefix: Science Officer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A capable officer used to all-night shifts overseeing ship functions and information systems.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Great Endurance
  
  Suggested Weakness: Brutish
conversations.prefix: Operations Chief:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Brilliant and inventive but still not used to the stresses of actual interstellar travel.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Brilliant Mind
  
  Suggested Weakness: Queasy
conversations.prefix: Engineering Officer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The responsibility for the safety of the ship rests here, in good hands.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Athletic Physique
  
  Suggested Weakness: Untrusting
conversations.prefix: Weapons Officer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Trained in xenolinguistics and alien cultures to make allies and history throughout the galaxy.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Charismatic
  
  Suggested Weakness: Stubborn
conversations.prefix: Communications Officer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your mission is to help humanity explore the stars so your people don’t have to take the risk.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Intrepid
  
  Suggested Weakness: Secretive
conversations.prefix: Alien Diplomat:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Humanity’s not ready for what’s out here. You are.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Military Training
  
  Suggested Weakness: Brutish
conversations.prefix: Alien Commando:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: State-of-the-art in earthly robotics and artificial intelligence, programmed for calm precision.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sturdy Robot Body
  
  Suggested Weakness: Limited Emotional Capability
conversations.prefix: Support Robot:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Fit, strong, and agile.
conversations.prefix: Athletic Physique:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re inventive and insightful, nimble and powerful of mind.
conversations.prefix: Brilliant Mind:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re quick to detect social cues and physical clues.
conversations.prefix: Highly Perceptive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Adventurous and bold.
conversations.prefix: Intrepid:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A rigid training regimen has prepared you for a dangerous life.
conversations.prefix: Military Training:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Long nights, bad food, and rough rides are no problem for you.
conversations.prefix: Great Endurance:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Friendly and approachable or intimidating and stern, whatever the situation calls for.
conversations.prefix: Charismatic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Education is your great advantage.
conversations.prefix: Well Educated:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve seen things the others wouldn’t believe.
conversations.prefix: Experienced:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Exceptional artificial design and construction make you strong and sturdy.
conversations.prefix: Sturdy Robot Body:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rough rides and variable gravity don’t agree with you.
conversations.prefix: Queasy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Difficult to divert and slow to change.
conversations.prefix: Stubborn:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sometimes it’s fear, sometimes doubt.
conversations.prefix: Hesitant:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sharing things has gotten you hurt before.
conversations.prefix: Secretive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pain and stress cut you especially deep.
conversations.prefix: Sensitive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Blunt and direct.
conversations.prefix: Brutish:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not so much for you with the talking.
conversations.prefix: Socially Awkward:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Others have let you down. It’ll happen again.
conversations.prefix: Untrusting:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your experience is limited... for now.
conversations.prefix: Inexperienced:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your software brain is designed to limit and regulate emotional responses.
conversations.prefix: Limited Emotional Capability:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You want to be remembered. You want to make a dent in history.
conversations.prefix: Secure Your Future:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Reclaim a site or planet from the likes of gluttonous alien prospectors for the glory of Earth.
conversations.prefix: Steal A Claim Back From Alien Rivals:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Earn a promotion and further your career.
conversations.prefix: Get Promoted:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Colleagues in the fleet have been slain by “Riser.” Maybe the *Dauntless* can end that pirate.
conversations.prefix: Get Revenge Against The Pirate Called Riser:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your faith encompasses all that outside of your knowledge. As your knowledge goes, must your faith shrink?
conversations.prefix: Faith Versus Knowledge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Peace comes through superior power. Make humanity safer by making humanity stronger.
conversations.prefix: Safety From Danger:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You lost your confidence—in yourself, in humanity, in something—and you’re out here to get it back.
conversations.prefix: Recover What’s Lost:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Humanity’s destiny is near. Answers are out there. Will you know them when you see them?
conversations.prefix: Human Destiny:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No species is alone. The future of sentience is in the mingling and cooperation of species. Make peace where you can.
conversations.prefix: Not Alone:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You want the respect of the commodore of the fleet. You need it. But why?
conversations.prefix: Earn Star Commander Fitzcurtis’s Respect:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Be the first to discover a new species of fauna heretofore unseen by humankind.
conversations.prefix: Encounter A New Life-Form:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can make this ship operate faster, more efficiently, for the betterment of all. Make it happen.
conversations.prefix: Improve Ship-wide Performance:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get over your fear of deep space by making it through a spacewalk in the field.
conversations.prefix: Spacewalk:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Achieve popularity among the crew. Respect can come later.
conversations.prefix: Be A Star:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is the Harbinger trying to say and where does that message originate? Find out.
conversations.prefix: Discover the Source of the Harbinger Message:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Space is big but most planets are claimed by aliens or difficult to mine. Stake a valuable claim.
conversations.prefix: Stake A Claim on a Precious New World:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your old lover is on the colony on Clotho. This may be your last chance patch things up.
conversations.prefix: Reunite With Your Lover on Clotho:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Human relations with alien cultures are vital to our survival. Build a meaningful bridge.
conversations.prefix: Build A Friendship with an Alien Colleague:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You can’t prove it—not yet—but you’re sure the company has bought someone in the mission.
conversations.prefix: Reveal the OmniColony Mole on the Ship:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your brother didn’t make the cut. Get something to send him so he can touch the cosmos.
conversations.prefix: Send Home an Artifact:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Standard Earthling survival suit with state-of-the-art life-support tech embedded. Bulky.
conversations.prefix: Hostile-Environment Suit:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hand-held but hefty scanning equipment. Sophisticated, expensive, delicate.
conversations.prefix: Portable Scanner Array:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Typical alert beacon for laying claim to an asteroid, planetoid, or other stellar body.
conversations.prefix: Planetary Stake Beacon:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This direct communicator is hardened against EM attacks and keyed specially for the *Dauntless*.
conversations.prefix: Long-Range Satellite-Free Communicator:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: An even bulkier, armored version of the standard hostile-environment suit. Meant for combat.
conversations.prefix: Armored Battle Suit:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Standard-issue sidearm good for damage to organisms and electronics. Poor against hardware.
conversations.prefix: Compressed Energy Pistol:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Standard-issue projectile rifle, generally forbidden to see use aboard starships.
conversations.prefix: MR-910 Combat Rifle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Only two of these are typically issued to exploratory vessels on peaceful missions.
conversations.prefix: Keycard to the Weapons Locker:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This code decrypts transmissions to and from the *Dauntless*, be they official or personal.
conversations.prefix: Encryption Code for the Dauntless:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A medical kit with various fast-acting and potentially dangerous drugs installed.
conversations.prefix: Medical Hyperkit:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The command center of the starship, cramped but highly functional.
conversations.prefix: Bridge of the Dauntless:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A shared dining space for crew and officers of the exploratory ship.
conversations.prefix: Dauntless: The Mess:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A private recording suite for text and AV logs to be securely encrypted and transmitted to HQ.
conversations.prefix: Dauntless: Comms Module:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Noisy and bright from the workings of the stardrive. Be sure to wear eye protection here.
conversations.prefix: Dauntless: Engine Room:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One of the dirty, steamy, dark decks of the ship, full of industrial equipment and grime.
conversations.prefix: Dauntless Machine Deck:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A pre-fab village dropped into an icy river delta from space. Just starting to eke out a new life.
conversations.prefix: Washington Colony on Clotho:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rich in mineral deposits and liquid elements, this frigid planet appears unclaimed by anyone.
conversations.prefix: Planet EV-1996:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A human deep-space probe detected repeating radio signals from this dank planet over a year ago.
conversations.prefix: Planet DRX-31880:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This rocky world’s claimed by alien prospectors despite the presence of a primitive civilization here.
conversations.prefix: Planet CGE-700:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Calcified, fleshy corridors and organ-like chambers open to vacuum. Something bad happened here.
conversations.prefix: Derelict Alien Starship:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You want to be liked. This ship is like your whole world now. Get them laughing.
conversations.prefix: Amuse the Crew:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hundreds of individual objects drifting on different trajectories. Get the ship through it all, intact.
conversations.prefix: Navigate the Asteroid Field:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The sensors collect astonishing volumes of data and the computer lacks the curiosity to make the most of it.
conversations.prefix: Parse the Sensor Data:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Every signal sent to and from the ship gets logged. If there’s a coded signal in there, find it.
conversations.prefix: Analyze Communication Records:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The crew can do better. They don’t have to like it.
conversations.prefix: Improve Crew Efficiency:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get primary systems back online.
conversations.prefix: Make Repairs:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get your shuttle aboard the spinning alien derelict and make a safe landing.
conversations.prefix: Land on the Derelict Ship:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Traverse the microgravity environment and locate an operations center if you can.
conversations.prefix: Explore the Derelict Ship:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Can data be mined from this old ship? Can you make sense of it?
conversations.prefix: Puzzle out the Alien Computer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not about reflexes. It’s about making sense of hostile vectors through limited telemetry. Get a firing solution.
conversations.prefix: Calculate the Angle of Attack:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Head of Earth’s deep-space division and experienced commodore of the exploratory fleet.
conversations.prefix: Star Commander Lauren Fitzcurtis:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Responsible for gathering diaries and video logs from active-service personnel through comms.
conversations.prefix: Commander Gyeon Jun-seo:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Liaison to exploratory ships from OmniColony Inc., manufacturer of deep-space colonial equipment.
conversations.prefix: Executive Director Bernard E. Wallace:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rogue deep-space recon robot commanding a renegade ship as a pirate.
conversations.prefix: “Riser” Apex-20 Edition Model E2090:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Leader of the new deep-space colony on Clotho, at the verge of unexplored space.
conversations.prefix: Premier Nathan Hewitt:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Co-pilot of the DSS *Dauntless*. This is her first deep-space mission.
conversations.prefix: Flight Officer Ellen Vanderson:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Captain of a rival, alien exploratory ship laying claim to discoveries throughout the sector.
conversations.prefix: Kro Kanzanic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Little more than a holographic ghost appearing in decayed transmissions coming from deep space.
conversations.prefix: The Harbinger:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A sleek, silvery liquid organism capable of physical mimicry and the secretion of caustic chemicals.
conversations.prefix: Xenobiological Entry Tango-321:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Teeth and claws on the ends of snaking, whipping tentacles tumbling through space.
conversations.prefix: Xenobiological Entry Sierra-909:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your mind works differently from the humans', and the strangeness of your tactical prowess often finds solutions the others cannot.
conversations.prefix: Alien Tactics:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The obscure rules and roles of your culture often make it difficult for you to interface with other sentient lifeforms. You sometimes act in ways that are confusing, but nevertheless consistent.
conversations.prefix: Arcane Culture:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reclaim sites, planets, and technologies from the likes of gluttonous alien prospectors for eventual profit.
conversations.prefix: Acquire Intellectual Property:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: In the ten years since he set foot on his first spaceship, Arkady Salter has been through just about every kind of problem imaginable.
conversations.prefix: Been Through This Before: