And you have to do this for each of the four species. There is a huge branching tree of cause-and-effects and you apparently have to find just the right combination of choices to get through it. Now, you can attempt to start a conservation movement before the carnivore is wiped out, or you may learn that the carnivore is in danger of extinction because of the discovery of a new weapon (like the bow and arrow say) and you can remove the weapon by stealing the prototype and insuring that it is never developed. This could lead you to a path where the carnivore is hunted into extinction which causes an ecological imbalance which leads to the destruction of the ecology of the planet. Or, you could go back to the earlier point and instead of encouraging the peace movement you can try redirecting their code. If you assassinate the priest, you may turn him into a martyr and touch off a holy war which destroys civilization again. You can encourage a more moderate branch of the “church” to come into power or you can take matters into your own hand and directly assassinate the high priest. Now, you can go to a key point in the development of the religion and make changes.
The religion stifles all development and the civilization falls into a dark age and never advances. You may find that this results in the founding of a new religion dedicated to peace. You can give one side a weapon that will give them overwhelming superiority over the other, you can encourage a peace movement that will prevent the war or you can encourage them to redirect their warrior code into another direction (hunting a dangerous carnivore instead of fighting.) Each option leads the conversation down a different path.Īs an example of a crisis (and I think this is more-or-less how one of them went) you might find that a species has developed a warrior code where combat is encouraged and two nations are about to go to war a war that will destroy their civilization. This takes the form of a back-and-forth conversation where you have several options of what you want to say. You communicate with it and discuss the current crisis and tell it how you want to resolve it. The agent looks exactly like the species in question but knows about you. You interact with the species through an “android” agent. (I may be misremembering the terminology here, it’s been a while since I played.) You can then travel through time to any of the crisis points to try to resolve it. After you drop the “seeds” on the planets you have chosen, you see the entire future of that species on this wheel/timeline display with various “crisis points” highlighted. No, nothing to do with the Varley story at all. (Hmmm…intelligent reptiles, sloths, insects and underwater creatures living side by side, time travelers from the future altering timelines…I think I’ve discovered where Enterprise gets its ideas) So, has anyone heard of this game, or am I the only one? So you have two contradictory goals, which makes it handy that you can tamper with the timeline.
Each of the alien species are able to develop one piece of the neccesary technology, but not until their species has advanced enough that they’re the dominant species in the galaxy, and have exterminated everybody else. To complicate things, you have a secondary mission…your ship has gotten damaged and can’t get back home, unless you get four seperate pieces of technology. Your mission is to seed that galaxy with four different intelligent species (reptile men, sloth men, insect men, and mermen), and shepherd their civilizations along so that, by the end of 10,000 years, they’ll each control about a quarter of the galaxy and stop the evil aliens. They then give you a time ship and send you back 10,000 years. You’re kidnapped by aliens from the next galaxy over, who tell you that all life their home galaxy is at the brink of extinction due to an evil alien race that’s taken over everything, and is going to be heading to your galaxy next. Has anybody ever played this game? It has one of the more original plots I’ve seen.
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