conversations.from: system
conversations.value: An ill-fated voyage to witness an unusual stellar phenomenon sees the passengers and crew of the *Avarice* marooned on an unsurveyed planet.  Will they survive long enough to uncover this world's secrets?
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: Survival Gear: Basic medical, various hand tools, few days of food, thermal support. Everything a marooned person could want to ease the transition from Urban to Crusoe.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Avarice Machine Deck: One of the dirty, steamy, dark decks of the ship, full of equipment and grime.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Flight Officer Ellen Vanderson: Co-pilot of the *Avarice*. This is her first deep-space mission.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Alien Soldier of Fortune: Humanity’s not ready for what’s out here. You are.
  
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  Suggested Strength: Military Training
  
  Suggested Weakness: Brutish
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Scientist: Curious and cautious, eager to explore the cosmos and live to tell the tales.
  
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  Suggested Strength: Highly Perceptive
  
  Suggested Weakness: Hesitant
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Extreme Tourist: An adventurer in the old sense of the word, you go out of your way to find new experiences amongst the stars.
  
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  Suggested Strength: Athletic Physique
  
  Suggested Weakness: Untrusting
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Escape The Avarice: That last hit fried most systems. Fires have broken out in most compartments. She's lost, it's time to go.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Old Crash Site: How it got here, and from where are open questions. What is certain, it's been here a while.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bosun Patricia Britt: A veteran boatswain, Patty takes pride in the quality of her work. Everything in its place, not so much as scratched paint.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Fourth Engineer David MacKilty: Among his other responsibilities is keeping the lifeboats operational.  He's a bit... paranoid.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Gather Supplies: They say you should proceed directly to the lifeboats. But this is your one chance to grab something useful.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Adapt, Survive.: Survivalist's Dream is perhaps a bit overstating it, but let's face it: being marooned is perhaps the moment you've spent your whole life training for.  Time to find out what you're worth.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Keep Everyone Calm: This is bad, very bad. Not exactly what you signed up for with the diplomatic corps, but one thing's for sure: panic is probably going to get folks killed.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Study the Star: Not the conditions expected, but you came here with a job to do: explain the star's unusual behavior.  Perhaps this is more important now that any rescue attempt may face similar dangers.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Secure the Survivors: Ship's lost.  You're stuck here, maybe for a long time.  You've lost a lot today.  Remember your training: the living before the dead.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Field Lab: It is, by far, not the high-resolution equipment you'd want for this work.  But it's what you could fit into the escape pod on minutes' notice.  It'll have to do, and it beats sticks and rocks, for sure.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Black Box Data: Stewart was probably the only person with any real idea of what went on.  He took that secret to his grave.  This is the next best thing, and the only hope you have at figuring out what went wrong.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Injured: It was a rough landing.  Technically one you can walk away from, but who knows what lingering problems you'll have after that spat with gravity?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bosun Patricia Britt: She follows orders to the T, and her knowledge of what makes a ship space worthy includes mechanical aptitudes as sharp as that no-nonsense glare she mastered.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Flight Officer Ellen Vanderson: She's shaken up after the loss of the *Avarice*, but she's a damned fine pilot if she can get her head back into it - and if there's no rescue... someone's gotta drive.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lifeboat 002: Power and supplies enough to keep 10 people alive for 30 days. Enough delta-v to maneuver halfway across Sol.  May you never need to rely on it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Fly the Lifeboat: Either by restoring the computer, or by grabbing the stick, someone has to get this ship on course.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Passenger #1: So, who do we have here?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Passenger #2: So, who do we have here?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Search for Survivors: The blast of that last flare was dangerously close to the other lifeboats... could anyone else have made it out?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Put Vanderson in her place: Okay, so her rash decision may have saved everyone - but this cannot become the precedent that gets set. Next time people might die. Remind Vanderson who's in charge, firmly.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Main Systems Online: The near-miss of the solar flare cooked a bunch of stuff. Gonna need that fixed before you can land.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Find Somewhere To Land: The lifeboat won't survive a hit from TG-C5r's flares. A planet is your best bet.