conversations.from: system
conversations.value: You made it. You passed your finals at Interstar Academy, the toughest school in the Confederacy of Worlds, and you're ready to head off into the world to make your fortune. The only thing holding you back is that pesky five year Employment Committment you're contractually obligated to work off. That's how you ended up here, the newest members of the Dengian exploration ship Pertama. 
  
  It could be worse. Captain Arjuna might be a jerk and you're pretty sure you'd have to file sexual harassment charges against Med Chief Qrrk if anyone could understand its native language, but at least junior staff get to go on the most First Drop missions. Yay?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Veteran Astronaut: A veteran of interstellar travel from the first generation of FTL-capable starships.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Experienced
  
  Suggested Weakness: Stubborn
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rookie Astronaut: A green newbie embarking on an interstellar mission for the first time.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Intrepid
  
  Suggested Weakness: Inexperienced
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Science Officer: Curious and cautious, eager to explore the cosmos and live to tell the tales.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Highly Perceptive
  
  Suggested Weakness: Hesitant
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Operations Chief: A capable officer used to all-night shifts overseeing ship functions and information systems.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Great Endurance
  
  Suggested Weakness: Brutish
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Engineering Officer: Brilliant and inventive but still not used to the stresses of actual interstellar travel.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Brilliant Mind
  
  Suggested Weakness: Queasy
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Weapons Officer: The responsibility for the safety of the ship rests here, in good hands.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Athletic Physique
  
  Suggested Weakness: Untrusting
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Communications Officer: Trained in xenolinguistics and alien cultures to make allies and history throughout the galaxy.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Charismatic
  
  Suggested Weakness: Stubborn
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Alien Diplomat: 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.from: human
conversations.value: Alien Commando: Humanity’s not ready for what’s out here. You are.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Military Training
  
  Suggested Weakness: Brutish
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Support Robot: 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.from: human
conversations.value: Athletic Physique: Fit, strong, and agile.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Brilliant Mind: You’re inventive and insightful, nimble and powerful of mind.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Highly Perceptive: You’re quick to detect social cues and physical clues.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Intrepid: Adventurous and bold.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Military Training: A rigid training regimen has prepared you for a dangerous life.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Great Endurance: Long nights, bad food, and rough rides are no problem for you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Charismatic: Friendly and approachable or intimidating and stern, whatever the situation calls for.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Well Educated: Education is your great advantage.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Experienced: You’ve seen things the others wouldn’t believe.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sturdy Robot Body: Exceptional artificial design and construction make you strong and sturdy.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Queasy: Rough rides and variable gravity don’t agree with you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stubborn: Difficult to divert and slow to change.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hesitant: Sometimes it’s fear, sometimes doubt.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Secretive: Sharing things has gotten you hurt before.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sensitive: Pain and stress cut you especially deep.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Brutish: Blunt and direct.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Socially Awkward: Not so much for you with the talking.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Untrusting: Others have let you down. It’ll happen again.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Inexperienced: Your experience is limited... for now.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Limited Emotional Capability: Your software brain is designed to limit and regulate emotional responses.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Secure Your Future: You want to be remembered. You want to make a dent in history.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Steal A Claim Back From Alien Rivals: Reclaim a site or planet from the likes of gluttonous alien prospectors for the glory of Earth.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Promoted: Earn a promotion and further your career.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get Revenge Against The Pirate Called Riser: Colleagues in the fleet have been slain by “Riser.” Maybe the *Dauntless* can end that pirate.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Faith Versus Knowledge: Your faith encompasses all that outside of your knowledge. As your knowledge goes, must your faith shrink?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Safety From Danger: Peace comes through superior power. Make humanity safer by making humanity stronger.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Recover What’s Lost: You lost your confidence—in yourself, in humanity, in something—and you’re out here to get it back.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Human Destiny: Humanity’s destiny is near. Answers are out there. Will you know them when you see them?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Not Alone: No species is alone. The future of sentience is in the mingling and cooperation of species. Make peace where you can.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Earn Star Commander Fitzcurtis’s Respect: You want the respect of the commodore of the fleet. You need it. But why?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Encounter A New Life-Form: Be the first to discover a new species of fauna heretofore unseen by humankind.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Improve Ship-wide Performance: You can make this ship operate faster, more efficiently, for the betterment of all. Make it happen.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Spacewalk: Get over your fear of deep space by making it through a spacewalk in the field.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Be A Star: Achieve popularity among the crew. Respect can come later.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Discover the Source of the Harbinger Message: What is the Harbinger trying to say and where does that message originate? Find out.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stake A Claim on a Precious New World: Space is big but most planets are claimed by aliens or difficult to mine. Stake a valuable claim.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reunite With Your Lover on Clotho: Your old lover is on the colony on Clotho. This may be your last chance patch things up.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Build A Friendship with an Alien Colleague: Human relations with alien cultures are vital to our survival. Build a meaningful bridge.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reveal the OmniColony Mole on the Ship: You can’t prove it—not yet—but you’re sure the company has bought someone in the mission.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Send Home an Artifact: Your brother didn’t make the cut. Get something to send him so he can touch the cosmos.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hostile-Environment Suit: Standard Earthling survival suit with state-of-the-art life-support tech embedded. Bulky.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Portable Scanner Array: Hand-held but hefty scanning equipment. Sophisticated, expensive, delicate.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Planetary Stake Beacon: Typical alert beacon for laying claim to an asteroid, planetoid, or other stellar body.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Long-Range Satellite-Free Communicator: This direct communicator is hardened against EM attacks and keyed specially for the *Dauntless*.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Armored Battle Suit: An even bulkier, armored version of the standard hostile-environment suit. Meant for combat.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Compressed Energy Pistol: Standard-issue sidearm good for damage to organisms and electronics. Poor against hardware.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: MR-910 Combat Rifle: Standard-issue projectile rifle, generally forbidden to see use aboard starships.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Keycard to the Weapons Locker: Only two of these are typically issued to exploratory vessels on peaceful missions.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Encryption Code for the Dauntless: This code decrypts transmissions to and from the *Dauntless*, be they official or personal.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Medical Hyperkit: A medical kit with various fast-acting and potentially dangerous drugs installed.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bridge of the Dauntless: The command center of the starship, cramped but highly functional.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dauntless: The Mess: A shared dining space for crew and officers of the exploratory ship.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dauntless: Comms Module: A private recording suite for text and AV logs to be securely encrypted and transmitted to HQ.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dauntless: Engine Room: Noisy and bright from the workings of the stardrive. Be sure to wear eye protection here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dauntless Machine Deck: One of the dirty, steamy, dark decks of the ship, full of industrial equipment and grime.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Washington Colony on Clotho: A pre-fab village dropped into an icy river delta from space. Just starting to eke out a new life.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Planet EV-1996: Rich in mineral deposits and liquid elements, this frigid planet appears unclaimed by anyone.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Planet DRX-31880: A human deep-space probe detected repeating radio signals from this dank planet over a year ago.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Planet CGE-700: This rocky world’s claimed by alien prospectors despite the presence of a primitive civilization here.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Derelict Alien Starship: Calcified, fleshy corridors and organ-like chambers open to vacuum. Something bad happened here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Amuse the Crew: You want to be liked. This ship is like your whole world now. Get them laughing.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Navigate the Asteroid Field: Hundreds of individual objects drifting on different trajectories. Get the ship through it all, intact.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Parse the Sensor Data: The sensors collect astonishing volumes of data and the computer lacks the curiosity to make the most of it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Analyze Communication Records: Every signal sent to and from the ship gets logged. If there’s a coded signal in there, find it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Improve Crew Efficiency: The crew can do better. They don’t have to like it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Make Repairs: Get primary systems back online.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Land on the Derelict Ship: Get your shuttle aboard the spinning alien derelict and make a safe landing.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Explore the Derelict Ship: Traverse the microgravity environment and locate an operations center if you can.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Puzzle out the Alien Computer: Can data be mined from this old ship? Can you make sense of it?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Calculate the Angle of Attack: It’s not about reflexes. It’s about making sense of hostile vectors through limited telemetry. Get a firing solution.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Star Commander Lauren Fitzcurtis: Head of Earth’s deep-space division and experienced commodore of the exploratory fleet.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Commander Gyeon Jun-seo: Responsible for gathering diaries and video logs from active-service personnel through comms.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Executive Director Bernard E. Wallace: Liaison to exploratory ships from OmniColony Inc., manufacturer of deep-space colonial equipment.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: “Riser” Apex-20 Edition Model E2090: Rogue deep-space recon robot commanding a renegade ship as a pirate.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Premier Nathan Hewitt: Leader of the new deep-space colony on Clotho, at the verge of unexplored space.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Flight Officer Ellen Vanderson: Co-pilot of the DSS *Dauntless*. This is her first deep-space mission.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Kro Kanzanic: Captain of a rival, alien exploratory ship laying claim to discoveries throughout the sector.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Harbinger: Little more than a holographic ghost appearing in decayed transmissions coming from deep space.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Xenobiological Entry Tango-321: A sleek, silvery liquid organism capable of physical mimicry and the secretion of caustic chemicals.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Xenobiological Entry Sierra-909: Teeth and claws on the ends of snaking, whipping tentacles tumbling through space.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Purple Flower Euphoria: You are all moderately intoxicated by this flower. It will take about eighteen hours for your bodies to adjust to the heady aroma, less for the more physically stout of you and more for Gyorr's unfortunately susceptible system.
  
  Here's the question: Can you be ready to move on to the Bravo site tomorrow?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Reins of Command: You're large and in charge. Feel that heady sense of responsibility.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Ready for Space: You should at least grab that bot and decide about the tree. Also pack.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Academy Conference Room: A conference room at the Academy. There's a table, some chairs, a smart board... really, what else do you need?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Engineering Chief Robairt Turner: Burly, brash, and utterly competent even when three sheets to the wind (hush, he doesn't drink on duty so it's between him and the Lord), Chief Turner rules his department with fierce affection and demand for perfection. He's one of two people who can swear at the Captain without getting a black eye as reward.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Meet the Crew: Don't worry, its just the first impression that will determine how you're treated for the next five years on this ship. It's not like these people hold your life in their hands or anything.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Medical Chief Qrrk: Chief Qrrk is a Brallash, a species that strongly resembles a moist octopus on a covered table fringed by tentacles. Ze (they're hermaphroditic and assigning sex is rude) is strong, average speed on land, super fast in water or zero G, and speaks via a neural connection to a computer. Ze is also pretty creepily prone to staring and burbling in zerzer own language. Most of the crew is pretty sure Qrrk is unofficially exiled from the Brallashi homeworld due to a strange attraction to bipeds. Ze's a damned fine doctor, though, and Brallashi secretions can regrow limbs (slowly, painfully, perfectly), so no one argues too much with occasional grope.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hapless Engineering Lackey: This guy must have broken a lot of mirrors in a past life. At least he's pretty?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reassemble TZR: It can't be that hard, right? I mean, these things have gotta be plug and play.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Foul Weather Jaxk: Bad luck finds you. Which, you know, makes you super popular.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lucky Bastard: You have a lot of weirdly positive luck.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bridge of the Pertama: The command center of the starship, classy and spotlessly clean. You know, because the XO's favorite punishment is making people clean it with toothbrushes.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pertana Machinery Room: It's basically a big workshop. There may or may not be blood on the floors.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pertama: Comms Module: A private recording suite for text and AV logs to be securely encrypted and transmitted to HQ.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pertama: Engine Room: You're gonna want hearing protection in here. Not because the engine is loud, but because Head Engineer Franco can't seem to speak at less than a roar.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Security Chief Ashlee Szabo: Jovial, friendly, and just a little bit of an art geek, Chief Szabo keeps order mostly through humor and persuasion. Anyone testing her will remember that she's just north of six feet and two hundred pounds of solid muscle. Have fun with that.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Weapons Chief D'niz: A Yaesoeri warrior of great lineage (that's important to them apparently), D'niz is highly organized, awkwardly friendly, and prickly about her species. Other than the lightly furred skin, extra set of arms and oddly shaped hips (she can run on all fours-er, sixes) she looks human.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pertama: Shuttle Bay: Your chariot awaits.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pertama: Medical Bay: Yeah... You're going to be seeing this place a lot.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pertama: Ready Room: This is one of the many commonly used briefing rooms. There's a holo table, a smart board, and a refreshment machine that usually works.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dean Fitch: The Dean of the Academy. He is much pricklier than any instructor and wears perhaps the worst wig in the history of fake hair.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cute Xeno Clerk: The clerk at the Xeno lab is kind of cute. Kind of androgynous, too. Maybe he...she... Ze can help you get a Dengian cherry tree.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Engineer Gina: She really sounds annoyed.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Communications Chief Ellen Poulos: Average height, average face, average voice- she seems utterly forgettable until she's angry, and she uses that to her advantage She speaks almost twenty distinct languages. Off duty she often hangs out with the enlisted, though she has never been seen to date.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Quartermaster T'gralt: His general state of dubious intoxication doesn't interfere with his eidetic memory. The quartermaster knows every piece of equipment on his ship. Probably keeps him from getting canned. Also, who can tell if a Gorgorian is drunk anyway?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Grendel: A newly terraformed planet, Grendel has two main land masses with a string of islands connecting them. The rest of the planet is water.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pertama: War Room: It's called the War Room, but it's mainly just the nicest briefing room.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Find the Quartermaster: Chief Poulos seems to think he's in the lounge. There are probably signs around, right?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Survey Alpha Site: Settled in a river valley, flanked by a mountain range on one side and a wide forest on the other, this site seems ideal at first glance. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Captain Kamini Arjuna: She's sort of a jerk. Sarcastic, swaggery, impatient with failure since she's sort of maddeningly good at everything she tries. Including Rilian kickboxing, in which she holds eleven medals (all displayed in her office).
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Executive Officer Edward James Poulos: The XO is a serious, capable person who often ends up smoothing things over with the crew after the Captain has blown through. He's Mommy to the Captain's Daddy- but don't let his sister, the Comms Chief, hear you say that. It'll gross her out.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Purple Flower Euphoria: You're all under the intoxicating influence of a native flower similar to poppy. It'll take about eighteen hours to adjust to the flower's effects, less for the fitter of you and more for the unfortunately susceptible Gyorr.
  
  Here's the question: will you be ready to move on to the Bravo site tomorrow morning?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pertama: Chow Hall: It's a cafeteria. The food is surprisingly good if you can ignore the hollow backtaste of reconstructed food. After all, what's the use in replicating shitty food?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Last Free Hour: You've got one hour before you need to be on the bridge for your first Away Mission. What to do, what to do....
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Beta Site: This site has more wide, flat grasslands than the Alpha site. It's pretty enough. The water source is a wide lake, not quite large enough to be an inland sea. There are mountains to the east and south.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Survey Beta Site: The Beta Site isn't as immediately appealing as the Alpha Site. It's mostly a wide grassy plain with a lake at one end. To Vash's eye the eastern mountains resemble his species' genitalia, which is kind of funny, and there are a lot of small hopping mammals about.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rocky Desert Plain: Halfway between the Beta and Gamma sites, there doesn't seem to be much here. It's a desert: hot in the daytime and freezing at night.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What's on the roof?: Something is on the shuttle roof. You don't know what it is or if it's dangerous. You could try to find out, ignore it and hope it leaves, fly away and let it fall off... the possibilities are endless. Well, sort of. It would probably get boring to keep thinking up new options after a while.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Merciful: Surrender is always an option.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get A Head: Sometimes you only need a head... support robots really do need their bodies though.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Quick talker: Sometimes it doesn't matter what you say as long as you say it quickly and confidently.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Wanted, in a good way: It feels good to be wanted by someone you find attractive.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Orderly conduct: Taking orders and following them is your specialty. Your mother would be so proud, you milk-drinker!
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Clever Illegal Subroutine: A well written subroutine, possibly illegal, but totally awesome. Hacks security, reprocesses AI, and all sorts of other stuff. Kind of finicky too.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Unlucky: Sometimes, things just don't go in your favor.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cute & Nerdy: You have no idea how cute and nerdy you actually are, which makes you all the more adorable. Geek chic is in, baby, and you are working it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Clueless: Sometimes, you just don't get it.  You were never good at reading body language.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dammit Jim!: I'm a soldier not a ___________!!!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Oh yeah, you aren't Lourdanian...: It is not his fault the rest of the universe isn't built like him.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Awestruck: The universe is a wondrous place, and sometimes you get caught up in it to the detriment of other responsibilities.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Grew Up on a Farm: You know your way around plants and animals and various farming tools.  Sometimes, people swear you can understand animals when you talk to them.  Maybe you can?