BETTER LIVING UNITED: THE CHRONUS INCIDENT

[The Boss]

It was August of 2026 when the world was enveloped in a brief nuclear conflict. Better Living Union, a merger between Cryptic International and the Better Living Industries, foresaw this possibility, creating the first life sustaining massive space station: Chronus. From their perch in this megalith of man-made ingenuity, the BLU engineers worked tirelessly at creating more stations to house their ever-expanding population. Eventually, after years of siring new abodes for the transient humanity, it shuttered its doors permenantly, never to reopen. Chronus disappeared off of radar and broke free of its moorings, leaving its orbit stranger and stranger, closer and closer to Earth. And for a while, nobody could find it. This is no longer the case.



After the world was purged in nuclear fire, the last living bastions of the human race lept off to the final frontier. In space, many factions decided that it would be their best interest to return to the scorched earth surface to recover supplies long since forgotten by man. These salvage agents were tasked in going to the most dangerous regions of space to gather items of historical importance: Documents, data drives, information, weapons, of any kind.

You work with Infinity Hill Salvage, on a job to find a very important artifact on Chronus, Chronus, to you, is like a ghost story, rumors surrounded a mission to Chronus, but today, the ghost story comes true.

IHSU ID FORM
ISSUED: 2066
CURRENT YEAR: 2066
ALL DOCUMENTS ARE UP TO DATE

NAME:
BIRTH DATE:
ISSUING STATION: INFINITY HILL
OCCUPATION: SALVAGE AGENT
CHOSEN EQUIPMENT:

INFINITY HILL SALVAGE MISSION STATEMENT

On September 20'th, 2066, [WITHHELD] drop pods will be sent to Chronus station, each containing a salvage agent, upon discovery of the current status of Chronus a dropship will arrive to pick up the surviving agents, all agents will be equipped with a camera unit to record proof of the events at Chronus. All information will be directly uploaded back to mission control upon the loss of the agent's vital signs. No information on this mission is to be leaked to the public. The Chronus mission is not to be revealed to civilian knowledge. Dispose of the information upon conclusion of the mission.


INFINITY HILL SALVAGE MISSION BRIEFING
Listen up, agents. Here's the facts:
About ten years ago Chronus station went silent. Why or how this happened, we don't know. What we need from you is to retrieve a certain prewar artifact of immense power, the function of which is classified. More information on it will be forthcoming in your individual mission statements. But here's some things you need to know now: Do not touch the device without using the provided gloves. Do not speak with the device. Do not listen to what the device has to say.

200,000 Rems will be provided to the surviving members of the team if the artifact is recovered. In addition, bonuses may be provided at the discretion of the higher-ups if the data you collect is deemed valuable.

As I said previously, we don't have a clue what happened there. Stay alert, and you'll make it out alive.

ALLOWED EQUIPMENT:
Due to the large amount of force and radiation dispensed in the shuttle launching progress we cannot send in seven brutes in power armor and pulse rifles to complete the mission at hand, so we will give you some customized firearms that won't get scrambled on entry.

You have three choices of sidearms

The MP5 Kustom

The Customized Sig handgun


And the B92-S


One choice of knife:

The L8 Bayonet


And three choices of primary firearms

The XM Custom


The REMAR Custom


And a shotgun


However, for an increased payment upon recovery of the artifact and a boost to all of your gauges, you can choose to go in without gear (Naked). Going in Naked will grant you nothing but a knife, your camera device, and your uniform.


GAUGES
Gauges are your vital stats, registered by your Hud Implant.

health gauge (HP):

Life force, when it reaches 0, you will die. Starts at 100

stamina gauge (STA):

Will to keep going, when it reaches zero, player will pass out. Starts at 50

psyche gauge (PSI):

mental strength, sanity, when it reaches zero, the player will slowly start to gain sanity effects. starts at 100.

hydration gauge (H20)

thirst, when it reaches zero, the player will gain thirst effects. Starts at 100

food gauge (FUD)

hunger, when it reaches zero, the player will gain hunger effects. Starts at 100

[vammy]

Screw it, is it cool if I play another alien?

[The Boss]

I mean, sure.

[vammy]

IHSU ID FORM
ISSUED: 2066
CURRENT YEAR: 2066
ALL DOCUMENTS ARE UP TO DATE

NAME: Kevin McGoulem
BIRTH DATE: 2038
ISSUING STATION: INFINITY HILL
OCCUPATION: SALVAGE AGENT
CHOSEN EQUIPMENT:Nigga I'm packing a MP5 Kustom, a super thuggish knife and a mythafucking Shotgun

[The Boss]

KEVIN MCGOULEM
IH FLAGSHIP HELIOS
DROP POD 24601
ABOVE CHRONUS STATION

Your cam-unit starts up as the briefing tape finishes.

You have thirty seconds to pod drop.

Current armor- Salv Softsuit (Allows for space travel, no extra bonuses) Beneath that is your standard agent uniform, in a dull olive drab.

On hand you have a long-distance communicator, preloaded with the frequency of the extraction team, along with the frequency of a radio operator, who has a stack of encyclopedias and a handle of Rum to aid you in your quest.

[vammy]

Sounds like useful gear but those cheap bastards should of gave me power armor it's like they want me to die, whatever pod drop to those idiots below.

[The Boss]

KEVIN MCGOULEM
CHRONUS
DROP POD 24601
CHRONUS ENTRY

After a brief alarm goes off, you're shot towards the station.
After 4 minutes spent barreling towards a pit of metal death, you're shot through a large glass window, peering out into the void. A protective lock seals the hole between you and the void as your pod gently pops open
"Hallelujah." A mechanized voice says from a speaker in your pod.

[vammy]

( My profile pic is the crown of Denmark, fun fact )

Well that was a boring fall, four minutes of falling at high speeds in a metal ball yawn.
Now that I'm here look around what does the 'great' Chronus look like anyway?

[The Boss]

KEVIN MCGOULEM
CHRONUS ENTRY

It's kinda dark.
It's very quiet.
There's a flashlight sitting beside an opened, empty, toolbox.
You can recover your gear now.

[vammy]

Recover my guns and such, then use the flashlight.

Flashlights are important

[The Boss]

KEVIN MCGOULEM
CHRONUS ENTRY

You recover the flashlight and your weapons, each having an extra magazine for the weapon.

[vammy]

I assume the flashlight has batteries?

I mean Flashlight, wait do I have a fleshlight I have feeling I won't be geting laid for a while.

Use the flashlight

[The Boss]

KEVIN MCGOULEM
CHRONUS ENTRY

You shine a light onto a false potted plant, still alive, because it's not real. There's an airlock to your right and a hallway infront of you.

[vammy]

Keep note of the plant. Never know when the bastard could become real.

Walk down the hallway

[The Boss]

KEVIN MCGOULEM
CHRONUS ENTRY HALLWAY

You enter the hallway, to the right you can see a long window, to the left you can see a welcoming booth.

[vammy]

A window? Oooooh wait this is not the time for space gazing. Check on the welcoming booth I like feeling welcomed

[The Boss]

KEVIN MCGOULEM
CHRONUS WELCOME BOOTH

A personal computer sits on a desk, two lockers behind it, a half empty bottle of 'Ruffled Rooskie' Vodka is sitting below the desk.

[vammy]

Take the vodka for research purposes

Does the computer still work?

[The Boss]

KEVIN MCGOULEM
CHRONUS WELCOME BOOTH

You recover the vodka.
You open up the computer.
The only option is to print a guest pass.

[vammy]

Erm print the pass I guess might be useful

[The Boss]

KEVIN MCGOULEM
CHRONUS WELCOME BOOTH

You recover your guest pass, printing up a code for the SPEAKEASY pub and ENTRY COMMON rooms.
The code is 0451.

You also get a convenient map, across from the booth is a maintenance pod dock. Going forward is the common room, and keep going forward leads to the elevator going up to deck A. Going left heads to the speakeasy pub, to the right goes to the common room.

[vammy]

That is useful! Since I require stuff fo research go to the speakeasy, those things are always filled with liters of researchable resources.

Chronus seems pretty legit I don't know why everyone would leave.