Story:

After teleporting through a variance in the rear shield, you find yourself in the superstructure of the ship. You cautiously make your way out to the cargo bay. You are met by a tall green imposing figure. He smiles, “Welcome aboard friend!” and shakes your hand, grasping it with 2 hands and then placing his other 2 hands on your shoulders. A formal sign of complete acceptance by his culture and no doubt a signal to someone watching.

“Thanks for that! I’m glad you’re on my side.”

“My name is Eiloudri[Click]newy[Pop-slur]kuff”

"Ed" takes you to a discrete corner. He tells you that a mad scientist helped to create and install a device to trigger a cascading effect in the sun. He says that you will need to find a copy of the ship’s plans. It will show where it's installed and hopefully how to disable it. Ed has already searched the terminals in the cargo bay and the plans are not accessible here.

As Ed looks over his shoulder, he explains that he also does some nighttime ‘trading’ of goods. He showcases the 4 items he has in stock to help you in your mission. You can pick one to take with you.

“Oh yeah? Can you connect me up with a spicy dish of...”

Game Action:

Pull the following 5 cards out:
(Select 1 of 4 for free)

1 - Acoustic Spanner

1 - Laser Sword

1 - Power Boots
1 - Thunder Bug 1701

(Acquire for 3 skill)

1 - Underworld Contact

Choose one of the first four cards for free. It will be with you throughout the game. Do not discard it; it acts like a sixth card which you may choose to use, or not, each turn.

Additionally, you can acquire Underworld Contact as a one-time opportunity by paying its cost as if it were in the adventure row for 3 skill, and placing it in your discard pile.

After you decide, remove the remaining cards and purple cube from the game.

From this point forward, starting with your next turn, pull one cube at the beginning of your turn from the 2nd draw bag until all 3 color cubes are drawn.

If it is a white cube, nothing happens. See the menu if the black, purple, or orange, cube is pulled.

It will be helpful to place things in the order you will need to do them:

1. 2nd Draw bag

2. Play area

3. Dice

4. Boss bag

Once obtained, remove the purple cube from the game.

Story:

Thus far your hacking skills haven't yielded any results, and you wonder whether you’ll ever learn anything about Eradikus’ plan to destroy the sun.

You see a technician wearing a high-ranking insignia, sitting alone, seemingly distracted. Sitting down next to him you say, "Hello! Maybe you can help me, I was trying to decide where’s the best place to eat. I'm stuck trying to make a decision."

"Oh, I might not be the right person to ask. My decisions are no good." As the conversation ensues you listen and ask searching questions. Like a tipped water can, his guilt of being part of Eradikus' scheme pours out. You realize that he was used like a pawn. Tricked into working on the project and then learned that it will be used to destroy the system.

You pause thoughtfully and then say, “What If I could undo what you did? You would be free from guilt, right?”

“What do you mean? How...” he pauses, thinks, and then cautiously asks, “Why would you? Are you about defending life or collecting credits?"

Game action:

Take out the Wound-Be-Gone card and place it on the adventure row as a 7th card. It will not be replaced once obtained.

If you answer Credits go to Reveal 1

If you answer Life go to Reveal 3

There are no further actions for additional ship plans found. Just score the points.

Story:

Game action:

Move the Boss marker up one on the rage track.

If Eradikus is already at the top of the rage track when this happens, go to Reveal 5.

Story:

You say "I'm in it for the money!"

He says, "That's an honest answer. I respect that... Getting paid is a powerful motivator."

You explain that it's not only credits, but saving the lives of everyone in the system that's important to you. Then it hits him. He realizes that you know about the scheme. It’s in that moment, he flips to your side.

He accesses the ship plans and shows them to you. He says that a power converter was modified to use quantum material. He explains that quantum material is used in the teleporters but is also the doorway to alternate universes, to which you reply, "Huh? Start over."
 

"There are parallel universes or dimensions where we have made alternate choices causing a slightly different reality than our own. Energy generated by quantum material can theoretically be used to unlock and open that door."

He continues saying that the power converter feeds the energy circuit going to the ship's cannon. The cannon then injects unstable particles into the sun. Due to the nature of quantum physics, the sun's matter will search out and link or entangle itself with a sun in an alternate universe. Both would then become unstable and go Supernova.

He points out the location in Engineering, shown on the ship plan. "There is a secret section off the security checkpoint. Here are the security codes to access it." He then explains the steps to disable the power converter.

Game Action:

Place a white cube on the space shown as a reference to where you need to go.

When you arrive at the Power Converter read Reveal 2.

Story:

Standing in front of an unassuming door, you enter the code. The panel turns green and you hear the bolts pull back into the walls.

Stepping in you are greeted by a Vault Guard! He sounds the alarm and leaps into action.

Game Action:

Take out the following cards

1 - Power Converter
1 - Vault Guard

You must defeat the Vault Guard immediately. If you do not have the swords, you take direct hits on your health meter. Place one blue cube for each sword you are missing. Defeat the guard and gain 5 credits.

Story Continued:

Now, on to the 23 steps to disable the device. You work through the commands and bypasses with precision. As you remove the panel revealing the quantum material, an energy field appears like a reflective water surface rippled by your magnetic tools. For a brief moment you see yourself as if in a mirror, but it’s not you. The background is different. He is hanging in the air? He is different, but yet, the same. He has the same recognition on his face as you. You both raise your right hand at the same time to wave. Oh, but wait, he still has the family ring you had to sell to survive. Suddenly, the field is disbursed. You try to shake it off and focus on the final 2 steps.

Game Action:

To disable the Power Converter you will need to spend either 5 swords, 6 skill, or have the Jidu Laser Sword card. You must stay in this room until this objective is complete. No benefits of the Power Converter card are gained, you've trashed it.

When done, remove the white cube and cards from the game.

Story Continued:

You climb your way down to the section behind the cannon and see the shiny new converter at the base of the cannon.

You miss a rung on the ladder and your gear clanks hard against the metal of the ship. Out of nowhere floats this defense bot the likes of which you've never seen before. It's got spinning blades! Who thinks up this stuff?! You see the red lights on it's neck go on, triggering an alarm. Then it heads straight toward you.

Story: 

Being a Cyborg does have its advantages. Tracking information and having an immediate awareness when alerts are received. The limit for odd events has triggered an audit. He now turns his attention to videos matching the description of an anonymous security report. Since no one has been able to resolve the outstanding alert, he has to take matters into his own hands. "Unauthorized access, security alerts, old codes activated, and what is this?! A video of me eating some sloppy noodle dish?!" Immediately the Cyborg's CPU maxes out at 100% in what might be called anger. Eradikus leaves the command deck and starts tracking you!

New Action and Rules:
Take the Eradikus card out and place it above the game board.

Move the Eradikus piece on the 25 point artifact room.

At the beginning of each turn, starting with your next turn, move the piece 4 moves closer to your piece following the shortest route to you, using the telepads and hyperlift. However, he does not stop at security checkpoints, need 2 boots between rooms, or get dizzy and have to stop.

If Eradikus is in the same room you are at any point of your turn, follow the below rules:

Spend 2 Swords + 2 Skill - You have defended yourself. Your health is safe, but Eradikus is still hunting you.

Spend 4 Swords + 4 Skill - You have defeated Eradikus! Per the card, collect the 7 credits, and flip over the G0B-L1N card. Read Reveal 6.

Not enough swords or skill - You are wounded while running away. Eradikus is still chasing you. Add one blue cube to your health meter.

Story: 

Being a Cyborg does have its advantages, superior strength, real-time processing of data, redundant systems, titanium armor, etc. But it does have its disadvantages. Being mostly a machine, it's predictable. For example making loud clanking steps that can be heard all the way down the hall. But that doesn't stop the adrenaline response and the spike in your heart rate! He identifies you. His eyes turn red and he closes the distance between you two faster than expected.

(If you have selected the Jidu Laser Sword, that is what you will use to defend yourself. If not, you have a telescopic staff that snaps into position when you swing it forward. This is the kind used by security guards that emit plasma energy for a brief time from the end.)

You take your defensive stance and ready your weapon. You block the first series of blows. In the second attack he reaches for you. You take a couple of steps back forcing him to shift his weight and come forward. In that instance you lunge forward and plunge your weapon at his exposed knee joint. It bounces off making only a minimal burn through his armor but enough to expose and damage a single circuit.

Now normally that would make no difference to a cybernetic. Minor damage triggers a quick level 8 diagnostics. However, when combined with a secret payload delivered by a video, well, that's a whole different story. The video advertisement that Eradikus downloaded into his system and viewed with his internal decoders dropped a little bit of unexpected data at the end of each video frame. Once combined together in memory, it formed your command which executed from inside Eradikus own CPU system. Since each program is isolated from the other, you knew it couldn't get to any key systems, but you could access say, the reporting or logging system. Implanting fake critical error entries for all key systems was just, genius. You smile every time you think of it. They would just be sitting there, waiting to be detected by a minor diagnosis routine.. Oh hey! like the one you just caused.

Suddenly you hear every gear in his system spin down. "What! NoOoOoOoo..." as the last remaining power is diverted form Eradikus vocal processors to CPU intensive diagnostics.

Once the entries were found, the system diagnostic routines would think everything went wrong. It devoted the entire system to trying to find the cause of the failures and fixing them. Only the most basic of sensors would be left online.

"Aaaawe what happened? Too many spicy noodles got your CPU constipated?"

You walk up to his quietly still frame, and mockingly wipe his chin, "Let me get that sauce off your chin there for ya."

With all of his redundancy and backups, you don't have enough time to do any real damage to him. So you make the best kind of damage you know how. You reach up and knock on his titanium forehead saying, "I guess the human brain still spanks the clank out of your old CPU. See ya around, Erad-a-mess. ahem, I mean, E-mad-a-pus."

Ouuuuuu. Dishing that out to a Cyborg with an inferiority complex, yeah, he won't be deleting that recording from his sensors anytime soon.

With a small whining noise starting to come from his chest, you decide it's best to take your leave.