| | 19 | == Story Outline - Jupiter (Chapter 1) == |
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| | 21 | The protagonist controlled by the player arrives in the Jupiter system through his work as an engineer of a small company that specialized on gas mining technology. The company has a contract with [wiki:GEP Ganymede Energy Provision (GEP)] and the player is to deliver a new radiation emitter with which the fuel production can be significantly increased. |
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| | 23 | On arrival the player can barely avoid to lose the emitter to a couple of pirates. The emitter is then tested with one of the newer GEP gas miners. During the test that first looks very promising, a major attacks by pirates occurs and the crew of the gas miner is forced to abandon ship. The protagonist survives this attack as well and can save himself/herself, but the gas miner with the emitter seems to have fallen into the pirates' hands. |
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| | 25 | The incident raises a lot of question from GEP and the protagonist's company. Because of this the protagonist gets fired and has to find a new job as freelancer. GEP starts to investigate the matter on its own and starts to increase its spying efforts on [wiki:RGC RedGas Corporation (RGC)] their rival and main suspect for the attack. |
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| | 27 | The initial mutual spying and sabotage attempts increase the already high tensions between the two major gas mining companies. This results in a full blown war in the Jupiter system, while the other two systems (Earth and Mars) are in need for new fuel supplies. |
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| | 29 | The situation gets even more complicated when GEP is starting to find evidence that the protagonist may be involved in the initial attack on the gas miner during the testing of the new emitter. Even though the protagonist doesn't really have a motive for the crime, he is forced to flee the system and find refuge in the Mars system. |
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| | 31 | All the while there is a second story line developing rather independently in the Jupiter system. There is a big ship with scientists that are about to start an expedition to Saturn to analyze a weird anomaly. While the expedition requires a lot of preparation and supplies they also encounter Noxonian spaceships arriving from Saturn. The scientists analyze the Noxons, which are fearlessly attacking the Jupiter system. The Noxons are few though and never endanger the system significantly. They are rather a nuisance in the daily life of a pilot in the Jupiter system. The scientists can trace back the source of the Noxons to Venus. However they seem to come from the anomaly. Shortly before the protagonist has to flee from the Jupiter system, the scientists are ready to start the expedition to Saturn. They are protected by others who flee from the full blown war that is going on between RGC and GEP. |
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