Space Pirates and Zombies! And you.

[LightMage]

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First time writting an Adventure, I started this because S.P.A.Z is one of my favorite games, and I can actualy use screenshots instead of my bad artwork for it.
Hope you all like it.

Today is the day you've finaly managed to buy your first spaceship (The cheapest one avaliable, the Short Bus)! As is the custom it is now time to name your ship.
What is its name?

[Cyros]

>Name: The Binary Pulsar

[LightMage]

Hmm, You've decided to name it.. The Binary Pulsar!
You feel kinda odd like you forgot to come up with a few funny names to discard first. You quickly shakeoff that feel, feeling silly.
Now what are you going to do next. Back when you were a young man you always dreamed of taking over the galaxy, which you quickly replaced with flying a cool ship, cuz thats where all the cool guys are.
You think maybe you should go get some Rez, which is the universal cash system, because it is used to make almost everything. Its found in astoriods.

Stats for your current ship.
Speed - Slow
Hull Strength - Minimal
Manurability - Minimal

Amount of Rez it can hold - 10 (Rez is mesured in Tons, so you can hold 10 Tons of Rez)
Amount of people it can hold - 1 (Hey look its you)

[Doopliss]

>Shoot/mine some asteroids.

[Bluesunnyday]

Turn on the Star Trek theme on your AWESOME SHIP RADIO.

[LightMage]

You turn on the Star Trek theme on your CRAPY SHIP RADIO. THE AWESOME SHIP RADIOS are for the HUGE sized Hulls. You have a TINY sized Hull.




You head over to the nearby mining station and fly a bit past it so you don't have to worry about any large fragements or mining lazors crashing into you. You begin to mine from some Astoriods using your SMALL MINING LAZOR.
You quickly max out your cargo hold with 10 TONS of Rez. Your ship feels slower and more sluggish now.

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Next update I plan to go into the background, and more general info about S.P.A.Z Playing the game will also help :P

[Gimeurcookie]

> Find something to buy!

[Doopliss]

>Drop the Rez off, you suppose?

[LightMage]

You have arrived at the Mining Station with your Cargo Full. You watch it harvest Rez. You begin to dock where the huge yellow arrow points you to dock at, how helpfull!
You also see another miner ship comming in for drinks as well.

-Mining Station-
Welcome to the Mining Station. We have a selection of blueprints to improve your ship, as well as new ships to buy.

Medium Mining Lazor
Breaks rocks faster, also can be used as a weapon. Cost 5 Rez. [Unuseable] Your ship has no Medium Mount Slots, your ship is too small.

Standard Engine
You can manuver in all directions faster, accelerate faster and have a higher top speed. Cost 10 Rez for your ship.

Standard Reactor
You have a faster recharge time and have more capcitator size. Cost 7 Rez for your ship.

Ships Avalable for Purchase!

Sizes

-Tiny- ( Smallest Class of Ships )

Dart (Military Class)
A fast ship with two small Lazor Mounts for weapons. Very fast, and manurable. Cost 20 Rez.
Can Hold
3 Rez
3 Crew Members

Speed is - Very Fast!
Manurablitly is - Very High!
Hull Strength is slightly stronger than your current hull.

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You also check out the news while you think about if you should perchase anything as you put your Rez into the Rez Storage provided for free by the Mining Station.
Newslog

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Today the U.T.A, United Terran Alliance has once again reinforced the gate out of Earth's Solar System citing the same reason as before, rogue pirate armadas attacking through Jump Gates.

You reflect on how for most of your life you've heard the same thing about how the Gate Network was sealed and guarded to stop rampet piracy and massive gold rushing that caused plant after planet like Earth to be come heavily polluted and ruined. Earth is but a shadow of its former self.
When the Gate System was first set up people discovered Rez, an amazing element which allowed cheap high power and Material. Huge gold rush across the galaxy and massive colonization began. Unfortantly humanity oversteped its bounds and socitey began to fall apart as a goverment for two planets had to try to control over 200 planets. The military a large force for just two planets had to quickly grow to keep up with the 200+ Planets it now had to watch over.

[Asmodemus]

> Buy a standard engine. Get ya to the Rez more quickly and back after all.

> Then go mine some more.

[LightMage]

You change your ship blueprints to reflect the new standard engine you have equiped.

Your ship has one SMALL LAZOR MOUNT Mining Only. It has two SMALL UTILITY MOUNTS equiped with TRACTOR BEAMS.
STANDARD ENGINE
SURPLUS REACTOR
SURPLUS SHIELDS

Quality goes SURPLUS->MILITARY->IMPROVED->ADVANCED->???
Boosters are special devices you don't have access to yet.

You then go back to harvesting near the mining base

You get 10 Rez faster than you did last time.
What do you want to do now?

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Next update will start introducing the plot.

[Doopliss]

>Continue gathering increments of 10 Rez faster than you did the first time.
>Rename your ship the Space Collection Vehicle.

[Asmodemus]

> Go back, mine more, get a dart. Mine more with dart guarding you, get a better reactor, mine more till you've got fifty rez.

[LightMage]

You head back drop off your 10 Rez adding it to your account, and go off to get more Rez.
Note that it takes about a week to gather your max load of 10 Rez in your current ship. (Before it was 10 Days)



You head back to the Mining Station, when you relize you need someone to control the ship if your going to start building a fleet, as AI controled ships are way less effecent then manned ships.
It ranges from 25%-85% Less Effecent depending on the ship type and job all that. You can just have the dart, or THE BINARY PULSAR AI controlled but, it will reduce there effectiveness.
More info about Crew and Ships. You just need one man to drive a ship, but the more people on a ship the more effective it becomes as you can have shifts, repair crews, ectera to help out. Most of the ships functions are automated on all the ships to reduce the amount of costs in providing for people on the ships.

As you walk in to fill out the paper work involed in storing Rez on the station you hear some muttered conversations from some miners about how there is richer Rez deposites farther in towards the center of the galaxy. The reason why the U.T.A closed off the Gate Network except for there usage and a few other private usages was to stop regular people from going out and harvesting the gold mines of Rez.

Current Rez Bank 20
Crew Size 1 (You)

[Doopliss]

Cracking the core is what we'd call a long-term objective. We probably won't be running any blockades off this station's resources.

>Are we on good terms with the Security station? They might have nicer ships.
>Continue mining asteroids.

[LightMage]

You continue mining asteroids and now have droped off your newest load leaving you at.
30 Rez in the Bank. Your ship hold is empty.

Your faction standing with the U.T.A Military Station is Neutral. They know nothing about you.
Your faction standing with the Mining Base (Civilans) is Liked, they have seen you over the past month and know you as a miner working with them.
Note: Faction standings go from Enemy->Hated->Disliked->Neutral->Liked->Friends->Allys
Enemy and Allys are fixed and cannont be changed, while Hated to Friends can be bribed/ or changed by other actions.

[Asmodemus]

> Hmm, is there anyplace nearby besides the mining station? Someplace you can hire people to serve on your ship or elsewhere? Or see about getting a better mining ship instead of the dart?

[LightMage]

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Tried to edit out the mission markers, Not skilled enough yet. Ignore them for now.

You are currently at the Mining Station. There are the other planets in the Solar System, as well as the Military Station which is Neutral towards you, althrough the miner who handed the map to you made an angrey face by the Military Station. As well as some random little !!!! marks which have no meaning. And a Question mark, which you assume means he wonders if he forgot a pair of socks there.

-Mining Station Crew- (Avalible for Hire)
10 Novice Crew Members
These men are not very well trained, they perform at 70% Eff on a ship. (20% Better than the Old AI you have)

1 Regular Officer
This guy is well trained, and the ship he worked on has been damaged in an accedent, he is hireable for 3 Months while it is being heavily repaired. (Can crew a ship at 100% Eff, as well as increases all lower class Crew Members Eff by 10%)

More on Crew Officers/Members.
Officers drive/shoot the ship.
Members Repair, and help mine Rez quicker. They can also board other ships in combat to try to take them over or sabatoge them. They CAN be used as officers but work at 20% less Eff.

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The Military base has this in stock, althrough you must be at the station to buy any of this.

-Military Base-

Old Military Shield for Tiny Class
Increases your shield strength by 50% Cost 18 Rez.

Focal Emitter
A lazer more destructive than a mining lazer, thus has a chance to destroy Rez while mining. It does double damage against shields, but half against armor. Range is 1.25x mining Lazer Range. Does ~ 3 dps to shields. Cost 22 Rez.

Missle Launcher w/Auto Missle Maker
A Missle Launcher that fires standard Missles, last one minute and home in quickly on the target. Does half damage to shields, Double to Hull. Skilled Dart, and Scout pilots can dodge them for a minute but can't dodge while under fire from lazers. Damage to hull is 8. Damage to shields is 4. Firing Rate is once every two minutes.
Cost is 35 Rez.
(Note that most of the cost is the Auto Missile Maker which creates missles out of floating particles in space thus allowing you to have infinite # Of Missles, the missiles can't stack because of the lack of racks to pile them up with as firing missiles is all automated.)

Ships (Required Liked Status to buy any from this Station)

Scout (Military Class)
A very manuverable ship, the scout is just slightly slower than the dart and is equiped with...
1 Small Lazer Mount
1 Small Launcher Mount

The Lazer mount is on the front of the ship, while the Launcher mount is on the back and fires backwards.

Can hold
4 Rez
2 Crew Members

Cost 30 Rez

-Your ship-
Shields 15
Armor (None) Tiny ships have no Armor
Hull Durablilty 20

[Doopliss]

>Actually, y'know what? Even here, being a miner is lucrative. Ten days' work increased your productivity by 15%, and two weeks' mining gave you enough spare Rez to buy a whole new ship. There's no need to be greedy; hold down your current job, buy a little house. Save a big chunk of Rez for an emergency and live a peaceful life.

[LightMage]

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:I thats not very adventurous.
>Note that Earth is very polluted and a horrible place to live, and that there is little room for housing on the space station. Besides the Inn/Bar on it. You usualy sleep in your ship.
Also note that these are Tiny Ships, and thus the size of a house acutaly :P. A Ton of Rez does not take up all that much room due to the fact that Rez is very dense. Besides im not going to let the adventure end with our main character working as a miner all week for several years to chill like everyone else. Where's the fun in that?
... After the next update I'll start getting the plot a moving on faster. I guess Im making this into to much like MineVile. Can't have that happen.

-Random Space Radio Chatter- [Most space messages sent from ship are not private because the radio message spreads out omnidirectionly so that everyone who has a radio on can hear them, if their on the right frequancy althrough the messages will be garbled from distance/time factors. Which you just happen to be on. Because Plot is why]
???: How long until the ...*Krtztl* *STATIC NOISES*
???(2): ... Mining *STATIC* ...
???: *STATIC* Planed
???(2): Not Long now. I'll *STATIC* one of these burgers from Moon Burger yet?
???: No Ugh, *STATIC* is horrible.
???(2): I think its great *STATIC* hit them as well and get a lifetime supply of it?
???: Thats *STATIC* the plan.

[Asmodemus]

> Damn, no crew gathering options?

> Well, get the dart to protect you and have it be a drone since you can't get any crew.

> I notice that there's no price tag on anything at the military station.

[LightMage]

My bad, I didn't bold them and I forgot two. The crew gathering options require you to dock at a station for a few days and visit the Bar/Inn on it for the Mining Station.
Or go to the Military Station and hire out some Military men.
Both of these can only be accessed while at the station. I forgot the Mining Station Crew info as well. I'll edit it in up there and add it here.

-Mining Station Crew- (Avalible for Hire)
10 Novice Crew Members
These men are not very well trained, they perform at 70% Eff on a ship. (20% Better than the Old AI you have)

1 Regular Officer
This guy is well trained, and the ship he worked on has been damaged in an accedent, he is hireable for 3 Months while it is being heavily repaired. (Can crew a ship at 100% Eff, as well as increases all lower class Crew Members Eff by 10%)

More on Crew Officers/Members.
Officers drive/shoot the ship.
Members Repair, and help mine Rez quicker. They can also board other ships in combat to try to take them over or sabatoge them. They CAN be used as officers but work at 20% less Eff.

[Doopliss]

Since I can't think of any suggestions and you seem to be low on them, a question: How does this adventure work? Are we actually going all the way from a single Short Bus to cracking the core with no Clockwork and minuscule funds?

>Take another mining trip, I suppose. We won't be going anywhere until we at least have enough for an armed Dart.

[LightMage]

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Well I'm trying to introduce several things, and figuring out how it works a bit better, then I plan on introducing Fleets no Clockwork, instead a fleet that can reach 100+ ships in epic battles. Im planning to start having combat come in soon. Like Next Update. Im just finetunning how it'll work out. :I See your gonna be an Admiral and lead a Fleet of all sorts of ship in search of Loot. :P But I guess it is going a bit slow so. Ima speed it up now. :I

My view nearing the end of the adventure is for you guys to have 100+ ships divided up into squads with you guys trying to have them have the best tech and Eff.

JACKPOT! You found a rock pumped FULL OF REZ! Theres more than 100 tons of near pure Rez here. You drag it in, to find out you've gained 250! Rez added to your account.

Total Rez 280

[Doopliss]

Woo! Wait a second, doesn't pure Rez mean...

>You have an inexplicable desire to get rid of this Rez as fast as possible. No time to cuddle up with the UTA base. Buy five Darts, equipped with Focal Emitters and Standard Engines. The remaining 20 Rez will be spent hiring crew, dropping standard engines for surplus engines if we can't quite afford it. No sense in saving Rez if we can't move it across stars. After that, bum rush the weakest-looking blockade.

Born in the fires of aimless ambition and no coherent ideology, this small band of not-particularly-desperate men will give birth to the Space Pirates.